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- Country: Canada
- Capital: Toronto
- Language spoken: English, French
- Currency: Canadian dollar (CAD)
- Country code: 1
- Area codes: 807/705
- Time zone: EST (GMT - 5)
- Airport code: YYZ
- First settled by Europeans in 1615
- Provincial population: 11,410,046 (2001) MSN Encarta: The People of Ontario
- "Ontario" came from a Huron word meaning "great lake"
- Second largest province in Canada next to Quebec
- Area: 415,598 square miles
- Climate: Cool continental
- Official emblems: white trillium (flower), Eastern white pine (tree), common loon (bird), Amethyst (mineral)
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Canada's most populous province, Ontario is located in central Canada between Hudson's Bay to the north and the Great Lakes to the south. To the west is the province of Manitoba, Quebec is to the east and the American states of Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania lie along the southern border. Both Canada's largest city, Toronto, and its capital, Ottawa are found in Ontario, which is home to over twelve million residents.
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Geography
Southern Ontario is heavily populated and provides rich farming grounds and deciduous forest, while the north is comprised mostly of grassy lowlands. Between these two zones lies the mineral-rich, rocky Canadian Shield. The same glaciers that shaped the northern shield also created over 250,000 lakes, which provide over 30% of the world's fresh water. -
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Ontario Questions
I need to get to London Ontario from Toronto! What kind of transportation is there, and which is cheapest? Which is fastest? 1 AnswerYou can take via rail,bus or car. Via Rail is on strike now. My family drove from Scarborough to London, we used around $20 worth of gas. Mine is a Corolla. S... read more
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Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?
[...] , Project Managers, Operations, Creative, Marketing, other. We also do a very limited number of internships.Locations include Lexington (Boston area), MA, Barcelona, Windsor Ontario, Venlo Holland, Winterthur Switzerland. http://careers.vistaprint.com/sokoloff | http://news.ycombinator.com/ Original | Permalink (November 21, 2009 04:54 PM) -
End of the Week, Hockey Night in Canada Open Thread and Announcers
Washington @ Toronto(Live to Ontario-'less Ottawa', Atlantic, NFLD, and North)(HD where available)Also scheduled: Buffalo @ Ottawa (Ottawa ONLY);Scheduled: Detroit @ Montreal (Quebec, Manitoba/West ONLY)leafsfan1967 | http://puckthemedia.wordpress.com/ Original | Permalink (November 21, 2009 03:41 PM) -
Dorothy Zehnder Turns 88
[...] 's. That was the greatest compliment because I didn't have to stop at any fast food chains on the way back to Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. We have been back several times after and still compliment on the qualitity of of your meals and the service. Zehnder [...]Jerry Gault | http://bavarianinn.wordpress.com/ Original | Permalink (November 21, 2009 03:33 PM) -
[...] care, the Big 3 and the Offshore nameplates have made Michigan's neighbour Ontario, a bigger auto entity. Go to www.newsweek.com/id/183670 for a futher comment as to why Ontario did not fall into the same problems as Michigan. As a boy [...]sursum | http://www.nytimes.com/ Original | Permalink (November 21, 2009 03:02 PM) -
Dorothy Zehnder Turns 88
Happy Birthday and many many more. I grew up in Oshawa, Ontario and have been coming to Frankenmuth and enjoying your chicken dinners since the mid 1970's . As the years have passed the tradition of celebrating my birthday has passed on to my children and [...]Nancy Bauwens | http://bavarianinn.wordpress.com/ Original | Permalink (November 21, 2009 03:02 PM)
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