The province on Ontario is the second largest in Canada, with the Lakes of Ontario and Erie as well as Huron and Superior being set on the borders of Ontario alongside the Detroit River and Lake Saint Clair when the Niagara River and Niagara Falls are also on a border of this great Province which was created originally as Upper Canada.
The Great Lakes from Outer Space and a Highway Map of Ontario Province
The land of Southwestern Ontario is dominated by a setting of hills and mountains as well as forests and valleys irrigated by rivers, such as the Avon and Thames Rivers in the area of London Ontario and Stratford Ontario. The river of the Niagara runs from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario when the Saint Clair River flows from Lake Huron to Lake Saint Clair while then the Detroit River flows from Lake Saint Clair to Lake Erie, while Lakes do lie in the interior of Ontario inland from Toronto which include Lake Simcoe. The fertile Ottawa River Valley is on what is the border between Ontario and Québec, with the river flowing the course of that border from Haileybury Ontario to the junction of the Ottawa with the Saint Laurence as a river. The river has various Tributaries such as the Gatineau and the Rideau which is what aids in The Rideau Canal's creation, while as for the Lake of Lake Nipissing it flows into Georges Bay which is part of Lake Huron.
That Lake is surrounded by Forests and it is the border between what is overall called South Ontario and the rest of the Province which is commonly called "The Outback", with the Forests and Swamps as well as Marshes and rocky settings of this country being all part of the great Canadian Shield. James Bay and Hudson Bay are the great bodies of water that are facing the northern and northeastern sections of Ontario as a Province, in which these are the biggest Bays in North America as one.
That Lake is surrounded by Forests and it is the border between what is overall called South Ontario and the rest of the Province which is commonly called "The Outback", with the Forests and Swamps as well as Marshes and rocky settings of this country being all part of the great Canadian Shield. James Bay and Hudson Bay are the great bodies of water that are facing the northern and northeastern sections of Ontario as a Province, in which these are the biggest Bays in North America as one.
Images of the area around Hamilton Ontario including the Webster and Tew Falls
Niagara Falls's The Horseshoe Falls and The American Falls after a Storm
The Ottawa River Valley
Lake Nipissing
Fork of The Thames near London Ontario
The Avon near Stratford
Typical scenes of The Canadian Shield
Ontario is one of the original Provinces of Canada although before 1867 it was the Western section of The United Province of Canada by the name of Canada West, with the capitol of The United Province which was Ottawa becoming the Federal Capitol of The Dominion of Canada while Toronto became Ontario's Capitol as a Province.
The Flag is Red colored with the Union Jack on the upper left hand corner , when the Crest of the Flag of Saint George's Cross and the Shield of three Golden Maple Leaves on three branches of Gold in front of a Green color and surrounded by a setting of Gold is on the center of the lower right hand side.
The Flag of The Province of Ontario
The Coat of Arms is that Shield on the Flag with a Moose on one side and a Deer on the other, while top of the Shield has a Black Bear on top of a swirl of Gold and Green and on the bottom is a Tan Scroll with the words UT INCEPIT FIDELIS SIC PERMANET in dark Green.
The Province has a Lieutenant Governor who is appointed by the Governor General but by recommendation of the current Premier, with the power of all legislation being trough the one chamber Legislative Assembly which is elected by a Past the Post system and developed by Proportional Representation. The Government is created by the majority in the Legislative Assembly, and the Premier is normally the head of the Majority Party in the Legislative Assembly.
The Courts are designed after the British Court System of Common and Basic Law, with the High Court of Appeal being the Highest Court and the Superior Courts being beneath it and all very much are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.
he Legislative Assembly meets in Toronto and in one of the most beautiful buildings in all Canada to be a Government Building, and it is in Richardsonian Romanesque with the three Arches of the main entrance from Queen's Park being legendary. The legendary such façade was used on the Cover of Rush's legendary Moving Pictures from 1981, with the rear section of the building one finds a huge Arch with a great setting of the Coat Of Arms of the Province above it when twin small Arches are on the side of that Arch. The Assembly Room is divided by the Length of Two Swards and with The Speakers Chair in the middle, which is also where the Lieutenant Governor sits. It is also where Canada's King or Queen sit while visiting the Province, as it was in 1939 when King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth Bowles Lyon came to Canada and visited Toronto.
The Province sends MPs to Ottawa via General Elections or whenever a Seat is open while the Governor General anoints Senators from the Province, with the members of the House of Commons serving anywhere from three years to five years to 6 months to 36 days when the Senate serves to 75 years.
The Courts are designed after the British Court System of Common and Basic Law, with the High Court of Appeal being the Highest Court and the Superior Courts being beneath it and all very much are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.
he Legislative Assembly meets in Toronto and in one of the most beautiful buildings in all Canada to be a Government Building, and it is in Richardsonian Romanesque with the three Arches of the main entrance from Queen's Park being legendary. The legendary such façade was used on the Cover of Rush's legendary Moving Pictures from 1981, with the rear section of the building one finds a huge Arch with a great setting of the Coat Of Arms of the Province above it when twin small Arches are on the side of that Arch. The Assembly Room is divided by the Length of Two Swards and with The Speakers Chair in the middle, which is also where the Lieutenant Governor sits. It is also where Canada's King or Queen sit while visiting the Province, as it was in 1939 when King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth Bowles Lyon came to Canada and visited Toronto.
The Province sends MPs to Ottawa via General Elections or whenever a Seat is open while the Governor General anoints Senators from the Province, with the members of the House of Commons serving anywhere from three years to five years to 6 months to 36 days when the Senate serves to 75 years.
The Ontario House of Assembly in Toronto
The Chamber and Rear Entrance
Moving Pictures
The Province has Council Municipal Regions with the Province still having Counties for there are Cities in Ontario that are single tier, while Toronto and Ottawa are Metropolitan Cities that normally would be divided into Boroughs but Toronto and Ottawa are divided into Wards instead of Boroughs. Cities are led by Mayors and Legislated by City Councils, with Wards voting Aldermen into the Council who are called Councillors.
Philip's Square in Toronto showing the modern and old Town Halls
The Province is served by The Royal Canadian Mounted Police or "Mounties" when they are also served by the Ontario Provincial Police or OPP, which deals with areas where the RCMP does not Patrol as they deal with Federal Cases in Ontario and the OPP deals with serious cases that are Province wide. Local Police Agencies deal with everything in Law and Order, in the Cities and Metropolitan Cities of Toronto and Ottawa.
The Crest of The Ontario Provincial Police and an OPP Cruser
All branches of the Canadian Armed Forces are in Ontario, with the Royal Military College in Kingston being Canada's West Point, and the military installation that is where the College is on is the second oldest military installation in North America.
The Royal Military College of Canada
Ontario is the leader in manufacturing for Canada, with Toronto being the most important city in Canada when dealing with industry while Windsor is the city in Canada that is the Canadian version of Detroit {or what it once was} when GM and Ford as well as Chrysler and Honda produce Cars and Trucks in Ontario alongside Toyota.
Steel has a long history in Hamilton and it still has a strong presence in the Province of Ontario, when because of the Saint Laurence Seaway trade is constant in the Province and Motor Vehicles and Food Supplies as well as Steel and Iron including Paper run on that Seaway. Information and Communications are vital to the Province, with Highways and Railroads running all over the Province and Airports serving almost as many areas especially when dealing with places that do not have Highways or Railroad connections. Those International Airports are those of Toronto and Ottawa as well as London and Windsor, and some are now almost 100 years old when others are relatively young.
Telephones and Telegrams are still important but the Internet is vital, of which the Province has Cyber and High Tech Industries based on a corridor between Toronto and Ottawa with the most important such place on that corridor being the commonly called Silicon Valley North or Kanata Research Park as it is legally called which is just outside of Ottawa. The Companies of Open Text and ATS Automation Tooling System of Cambridge made their homes in that corridor, when The Perimeter Institute and Institute for Quantum Computing as well as Quantum Valley Investments also exist in the corridor.
Agriculture and Fish Farming as well as Fur Trapping are also important for the economy as well as permitted Hunting in which Moose Meat and Deer Meat {Venison} as well as other Game Meat are sold in Supermarkets, while Mining is still important to the Province as well as Timber and Paper Goods Manufacturing. Hydroelectricity is important to the Province and especially in dealing with the Niagara River and those Generators made by Nikola Tesla long ago on the river that are powered by the great Falls ate Niagara that are the Horseshoe and American Falls. Nuclear Power is also important and especially in one Power plant facing Lake Huron, while other Nuclear Plants are all over the Province.
Toronto is the Financial and Trade Center of Ontario besides its Capitol City and chief Industrial Center, with the city also being the most populated Canadian city and like New York City it is a city that never sleeps.
Steel has a long history in Hamilton and it still has a strong presence in the Province of Ontario, when because of the Saint Laurence Seaway trade is constant in the Province and Motor Vehicles and Food Supplies as well as Steel and Iron including Paper run on that Seaway. Information and Communications are vital to the Province, with Highways and Railroads running all over the Province and Airports serving almost as many areas especially when dealing with places that do not have Highways or Railroad connections. Those International Airports are those of Toronto and Ottawa as well as London and Windsor, and some are now almost 100 years old when others are relatively young.
Telephones and Telegrams are still important but the Internet is vital, of which the Province has Cyber and High Tech Industries based on a corridor between Toronto and Ottawa with the most important such place on that corridor being the commonly called Silicon Valley North or Kanata Research Park as it is legally called which is just outside of Ottawa. The Companies of Open Text and ATS Automation Tooling System of Cambridge made their homes in that corridor, when The Perimeter Institute and Institute for Quantum Computing as well as Quantum Valley Investments also exist in the corridor.
Agriculture and Fish Farming as well as Fur Trapping are also important for the economy as well as permitted Hunting in which Moose Meat and Deer Meat {Venison} as well as other Game Meat are sold in Supermarkets, while Mining is still important to the Province as well as Timber and Paper Goods Manufacturing. Hydroelectricity is important to the Province and especially in dealing with the Niagara River and those Generators made by Nikola Tesla long ago on the river that are powered by the great Falls ate Niagara that are the Horseshoe and American Falls. Nuclear Power is also important and especially in one Power plant facing Lake Huron, while other Nuclear Plants are all over the Province.
Toronto is the Financial and Trade Center of Ontario besides its Capitol City and chief Industrial Center, with the city also being the most populated Canadian city and like New York City it is a city that never sleeps.
Toronto in all its might
One of Tesla's Generators and The Bruce Nuclear Szmurlo Plant on Lake Huron
The Welland Canal of the Saint Laurence Seaway
The Queen Elizabeth Way Highway
The entrance of Toronto on the Queen Elizabeth Way {by fafali.org} and a historical Highway Sign
The Province has a Population of 12,851,821, with the majority being English and Scotts as well as Irish in origin alongside other European in origin as well as Canadien or Canadienne as so many French speaking people in the Province live in the Ottawa River Valley and in Southeast Ontario. The First Nations include the Algonquin First Nation and Les Métis including the Inuit, when many Asians live in Ontario and especially Chinese and Japanese as well as Korean including overall Southeast Asian and Filipino when Indo Sub Continental peoples are the Asian majority of Ontario as a Province. A huge variety of people from Latin America live in Ontario, when a large Black population lives in the Province that is of Runaway Slave origin besides Jamaican and Haitian as well as Bahamian.
The official language is English but French is the second most spoken language in Ontario, with Ottawa being the one city in Ontario that is legally bilingual when all National Parks have signs in both French and English.
The majority of people in Ontario are surprisingly enough Roman Catholics and then Protestant, with the United Church of Canada and the Anglican and Presbyterian Churches as well as Lutheran Churches following as well as the Pentecostal and Baptist Churches although the Russian and Eastern Orthodox Churches of different types are bigger than those. The Hindu and Moslem Faiths as well as Buddhist Faith and Jewish Faith {as so many Jews came to Metropolitan Toronto} besides both of the Sikh and Jain Faiths also exist, and with the majority of Muslims being Pakistani if not Arab or Bengali.
The official language is English but French is the second most spoken language in Ontario, with Ottawa being the one city in Ontario that is legally bilingual when all National Parks have signs in both French and English.
The majority of people in Ontario are surprisingly enough Roman Catholics and then Protestant, with the United Church of Canada and the Anglican and Presbyterian Churches as well as Lutheran Churches following as well as the Pentecostal and Baptist Churches although the Russian and Eastern Orthodox Churches of different types are bigger than those. The Hindu and Moslem Faiths as well as Buddhist Faith and Jewish Faith {as so many Jews came to Metropolitan Toronto} besides both of the Sikh and Jain Faiths also exist, and with the majority of Muslims being Pakistani if not Arab or Bengali.