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Provincial flag of Ontario This is a list of notable people who were either born or lived in Ontario , Canada , or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that province. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The total number of Iroquois is difficult to establish. About 45,000 Iroquois lived in Canada in 1995, more than 39,000 in Ontario and the remainder in Quebec. Among the six nations and federally recognized units in the United States, total tribal enrollment in 1995 numbered about 30,000.
Rocco Perri was born in Platì, Calabria, Italy, on December 30, 1887. [4] His family were poor shepherds, and he dropped out of school in grade 5. [5] In the late 19th century, 80 percent of the people in Calabria were illiterate and Perri stood out in having at least some literacy. [6]
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.
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.
They lived in the most fertile and warmest part of Ontario. They were determined to remain neutral in the conflicts between the Iroquois from south of the Great Lakes and the Ontario Iroquoians who lived to the north of the Neutral. They throve on trade, rather than war."
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The Huron lived in Ontario near the northern limit of where agriculture was feasible and had less fertile soils than many other regions to the south and west. Nevertheless, with polyculture (practiced predominantly with the Three Sisters ), they produced surpluses for trading with nearby non-agricultural peoples.