Another example is about, which has three different ways of signing it ; these are the standard way and two regional variations ( Atlantic and Ontario ).

The province has strong cultural and personal ties to the Canadian Prairies and Ontario as well as to the West Coast of the United States and to Alaska and the Yukon.

Among the provinces, British Columbia has been distinguished by its strong liberal views ( in stark contrast to the other provinces west of Ontario ).

The Murray Canal has been cut through the " Carrying Place ", the few miles separating the end of the bay and Lake Ontario on the west side.

Northern Ontario is home to a wide array of mines, while the fishing industry has long been central to the character of the Atlantic provinces, though it has recently been in steep decline.

The World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually since 1999 on the first Saturday of June in Tavistock, Ontario.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources research scientist Brent Patterson has revealed findings that most coyotes in Eastern Ontario are wolf-coyote hybrids and that the Eastern wolves in Algonquin Park are, in general, not interbreeding with coyotes.

The Slow Food movement has sought in some countries to add an edible school yard and garden classrooms to schools, e. g. in Fergus, Ontario, where these were added to a public school to augment the kitchen classroom.

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

Heinz Canada's head office is in North York, Ontario and it also has operations in St. Marys, Ontario ; Calgary, Alberta ; and Montreal, Quebec.

Ontario has over 2 million people of Irish descent, who in greater numbers arrived in the 1820s and the decades that followed to work on colonial infrastructure and to settle land tracts in Upper Canada, the result today is a countryside speckled with the place names of Ireland.

Kain's brother, Kevin Kain, is a noted tropical medicine expert based in Toronto, Ontario ; she has three younger siblings.

As the last lake in the Great Lakes ' hydrologic chain, Lake Ontario has the lowest mean surface elevation of the lakes at 243 feet ( 74 m ) above sea level ; lower than its neighbor upstream.

The Province of Ontario has different tiers of municipalities, including lower, upper, and single tiers.

Every McIntosh apple has a direct lineage to a single tree discovered in 1796 by John McIntosh on his farm in Dundela, a hamlet near Morrisburg, in Dundas County, Ontario, Canada.

A few motels ( particularly in Niagara Falls, Ontario, where a motel strip extending from Lundy's Lane ( 20 ) to the falls has long been marketed to newlyweds ) would offer " honeymoon suites " with extra amenities such as whirlpool baths.

Ontario has three main climatic regions.

This region has warm and sometimes hot summers with colder, longer winters, ample snowfall and annual precipitation similar to the rest of Southern Ontario.

London, situated in Southern ( Southwestern ) Ontario, has the most lightning strikes per year in Canada, averaging 34 days of thunderstorm activity per year.

From a largely ethnically British province, Ontario has rapidly become very culturally diverse.

The Bay of Quinte () is a long, narrow bay shaped like the letter " Z " on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada.

The northernmost parts of Ontario — primarily north of 50 ° N — have a subarctic climate ( Köppen Dfc ) with long, severely cold winters and short, cool to warm summers with dramatic temperature changes possible in all seasons.

One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mile ( 1. 5 kilometres ) wide and 300 miles ( 500 kilometres ) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3. 5 billion birds.

Exclusively French after 1916, Sacred Heart College was the centre of education for young Franco-Ontarians for decades since it was the first, and for a long time, the only college in Northern Ontario.

The largest Fox affiliate ( in terms of Nielsen market ranking ) without any news programming whatsoever is WUTV / Buffalo, which is within range of Toronto and targets Southern Ontario heavily with its syndicated programs and advertising and has long opted to air sitcom reruns instead of investing in a news department or contracting news programming to another station in a television market with a large number of stations available from Buffalo, Hamilton and Toronto that produce local newscasts already.

Marilyn Grace Bell Di Lascio is a retired long distance swimmer, born October 19, 1937, in Toronto, Ontario.

New school construction and renovation has continued over the years, and today the Ontario School District enjoys a long and distinguished reputation for education excellence with state-of-the-art facilities.

) Another interesting practice seen at least in Ontario is that cars wishing to turn left that arrived after the left turn signal ended can do so during the yellow phase, as long as there is enough time to make a safe turn.

The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in the United States and Canada that runs predominantly east / west from New York State, through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois.

Eves is a long time close friend of fellow northern Ontario MPP Mike Harris.

The Windsor Star has reported on March 20, 2003 that Windsor, Ontario intended to have a 2-1-1 service up by 2009, as the Provincial Government allocated $ 311, 000 to start it up, with much of the money being donated by the United Way of Canada, but had a set time limit on how long those funds would be available.

Ontario Hydro committed to restarting the units, but the project underwent long delays and large cost over-runs.

Its signal has long been available on cable across the Greater Toronto Area and most of Southern Ontario, and can be seen on Rogers Cable channel 5 in Barrie and channel 20 in the Greater Toronto Area.

Other exhibits include a New France farmhouse ; a stretch of main street, typical of an early Ontario town ; an actual Ukrainian church that once stood in Alberta and was moved in its entirety to the museum ; and a long fishing boat that once operated off the coast of British Columbia.

Canadians were exhausted by the long debate over the national flag and leaders of both the Ontario Liberal Party and the Ontario New Democratic Party decided to support the design for the proposed Ontario flag.

* October 19-Marilyn Bell, long distance swimmer, first person to swim across Lake Ontario

The Blue-winged Warbler, Vermivora cyanoptera, is a fairly common New World warbler, 11. 5 cm long and weighing 8. 5 g. It breeds in eastern North America in southern Ontario and the eastern USA.

The system began to develop in September 1995, when CHUM Limited disaffiliated CKVR, its longtime CBC Television affiliate in Barrie, Ontario, and re-launched it as an independent station with a more youthful image in order to generate interest from viewers in the neighbouring Toronto market, where CKVR had long been available on basic cable.

Apparently, as the glacier retreated, it blocked the Lake Ontario outlet through the present St. Lawrence River for a long period, holding the lake at a higher level.

For instance, in Canada, the province of British Columbia operates a province-wide service ( the British Columbia Ambulance Service ) whereas in Ontario, the service is provided by each municipality, either as a distinct service, linked to the fire brigade, or contracted out to a third party.

* Information provided by The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario.

Grammar schools provided secondary education in Ontario until 1871.

This bill was invoked in Ontario ( and then Supreme Court of Canada docket 33819 ) in the case of Les Editions Ecosociete Inc., Alain Deneault, Delphine Abadie and William Sacher vs. Banro Inc., in which the publisher Ecosociete pled ( supported by the BCCLA ) that it should not face Ontario liability for a publication in Quebec, as the suit was a SLAPP and the Quebec law explicitly provided to dismiss these.

Some residents of Kenora, citing dissatisfaction with the level of government service provided to the region by the provincial government, have proposed that the region secede from Ontario to join the province of Manitoba.

LWDH is provided with approximately 80 % of its operating budget by the Ontario Government.

The farm was used to try out new methods and crops, and provided agricultural and leadership training for many students from the Ontario College of Agriculture.

Some unincorporated settlements which are not part of a larger municipality — particularly those in rural areas — may have some types of municipal services provided to them by a quasi-governmental agency such as a local services board in Ontario.

Two additional acts provided statutory establishment of the LWCB, defined its jurisdiction and powers, and provided for board members appointed by Canada and Ontario: the Lake of the Woods Control Board Act, Canada, 1921, the Lake of the Woods Control Board Act, Ontario, 1922.

Lastly, the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway provided electric interurban service from Port Colborne, Ontario to Thorold, Ontario via Welland.

Water in southern York is provided by Toronto Water and Peel Region by way of 3 pumping stations and reservoirs ( Bayview, Dufferin and Milliken ) using water from Lake Ontario.

Some of the decline was attributed to the limited access and poor service the cable ferry provided, and part to the opening of the Buttonville Municipal Airport north of the city in Markham, Ontario in 1962.

Wardair provided domestic service in Quebec, Manitoba, Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta, as well as international service to Europe, the United States, and several Caribbean and South American countries.

The incident led to renewed calls across Canada for strengthening of the Canadian government's gun control legislation and provided the impetus for Brian's Law ( Ontario Bill 68 )-an amendment of the Mental Health Act and Health Care Consent Act which introduced community treatment orders and new criteria for involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities.

Despite viewer donations, the majority of TVO's funding is provided by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Education, which provides $ 30 million annually.

Junior Kindergarten ( or equivalent ) exists as an official program in only Ontario and Quebec while kindergarten ( or equivalent ) is available in every province, but provincial funding and the level of hours provided varies widely.

Moreover, it carried tourists to the falls and connected with the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway, which provided interurban service to St. Catharines, Ontario.

A former arcade building, the Eco-Learning Centre was established in a lagoon area of Ontario Place as a fun and informative “ edutainment ” attraction, and was created with displays generously provided by the The World Wildlife Fund, The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, The Royal Ontario Museum, Parks Canada, The Toronto Humane Society, and the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Local news shifted focus from the station's core market, the Hamilton area, toward Ontario as a whole, in an attempt to challenge what was then a regional news service provided by Global.