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Province of Ontario: A History (1937) 4 vol. with 2 vol of biographies; Marks, Lynne. Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario. U. of Toronto Press, 1996. 330 pp. Montigny, Edgar-Andre, and Lori Chambers, eds. Ontario since Confederation: A Reader (2000). Moss, Mark.
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.
Ontario [a] is the southernmost province of Canada. [9] [b] Located in Central Canada, [10] Ontario is the country's most populous province.As of the 2021 Canadian census, it is home to 38.5 per cent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec).
The Ontario Science Centre opens. 1970: July 5: The Air Canada Flight 621 accident occurs as the deadliest aviation incident in Toronto. 1971: May 22: Ontario Place opens. June 3: The Spadina Expressway project into downtown is cancelled to go no further than Eglinton Avenue. November 6: The Toronto Daily Star is renamed as The Toronto Star. 1972
Ontario Motor Speedway was a motorsport venue located in Ontario, California.It was the first and only automobile racing facility built to accommodate major races sanctioned by all of the four dominant racing sanctioning bodies: USAC (and now IndyCar Series) for open-wheel oval car races; NASCAR for a 500-mile (800 km) oval stock car races; NHRA for drag races; and FIA for Formula One road ...
Ontario Discount Department Store was a chain of discount department stores, which operated primarily in Ohio from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Ontario's parent company, Cook United , discontinued the use of the Ontario brand when it bought the Rink's Bargain Barn chain in 1981.
The Premier of Ontario at the time, Mitchell Hepburn, used the Dionne vaudeville trip as an excuse to extend the guardianship. He claimed that they must save the babies from further exploitation and, in March 1935, pushed the Dionne Quintuplets Act through government, that officially made the girls wards of the Crown and extended guardianship ...
June – An Ontario farmer is allowed to grow 10 acres (40,000 m 2) of marijuana for research purposes. June 9 – Ontario's Equality Rights Statute Amendment Act (Bill 167), a bill proposed by the government of Bob Rae to extend civil union rights to same-sex couples, is defeated on a vote of 68–59 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.