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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.
1971 – Ontario Place theme park opens in Toronto created by the Government of Ontario 1976 – The CN Tower in Toronto is completed and opens to the public. 1979 – A train derailment in Mississauga causes the largest evacuation of a city in North American history.
The borders of Ontario were last changed in 1912. The borders of Ontario, its new name in 1867, were provisionally expanded north and west. ... created districts in ...
No land changed hands, and the scope of the case did not include the sovereignty of Machias Seal Island. [59] April 1, 1999 The territory of Nunavut was created from roughly the eastern half of the Northwest Territories. [n] [61] December 6, 2001 The province of Newfoundland was renamed Newfoundland and Labrador. [62] April 1, 2003
Pages in category "History of Ontario" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony—New Brunswick—was created in 1784; [102] followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada (French Canada) along the St. Lawrence River and the Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital ...
The constitutional history of Canada begins with the 1763 Treaty of Paris, in which France ceded most of New France to Great Britain. Canada was the colony along the St Lawrence River, part of present-day Ontario and Quebec.
Industrial capacity gained further strength from the establishment in the fifties, by the Ford Motor Company of Canada of a production plant in Oakville, which would eventually become a suburb of Toronto. The signing of the Auto Pact with the US in 1965 created massive investment in auto production facilities in Toronto and southern Ontario.