In July 1971, the Apollo 16 astronauts visited Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada for geology training exercises, the first time U. S. astronauts ever did so.

Ontario, and the Greater Toronto Area in particular, have been the recipients of most immigration to Canada, largely immigrants from war-torn Europe in the 1950s and 1960s and after changes in federal immigration law, a massive influx of non-Europeans since the 1970s.

* Presto card, a smartcard-based fare payment system used in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton, Canada

Several clans moved to Canada, in particular the Greater Toronto Area, home to what Canadian law enforcement call the Siderno Group, which has been here since at least the 1950s.

In October 2008, and again in 2009, YMCA of Greater Toronto in Canada was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. On 11 July 2010, the YMCA of the USA re-branded its name to the popular nickname, " The Y ", and revised the iconic red and black logo to create five coloured versions.

* Kanaka Creek Regional Park, a regional park run by the Greater Vancouver Regional District, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada

On February 21, 2012 the Greater Cleveland Council announced that " the executive board of Greater Cleveland Council, Boy Scouts of America voted to unanimously accept a cash offer of $ 415, 000 for the 10 acre property on the French River in Ontario, Canada that was the Tinnerman Wilderness Canoe Base.

Caledon ( 2011 population 59, 460 ) is a town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.

Greater Moncton International Airport () or Moncton / Greater Moncton International Airport is located in the city of Dieppe east northeast of downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Oakville is a town in Halton Region, on Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area.

The population as of the Canada 2011 Census totaled 231, 409, making it the third largest city in Greater Montreal, the fifth most populous city in Quebec and nineteenth largest in Canada.

The larger subspecies, the Greater Snow Goose ( C. c. atlanticus ), nests in northeastern Canada.

Rare hybrids with the Greater White-fronted Goose, Canada Goose, and Cackling Goose have been observed.

Snow Geese often travel and feed alongside Greater White-fronted Geese ; in contrast, the two tend to avoid travelling and feeding alongside Canada Geese, which are often heavier birds.

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada

His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Abbotsford has the third highest proportion of visible minorities among Census Metropolitan Areas in Canada, after the Greater Toronto Area and Greater Vancouver.

Greater White-fronted Geese are in length, have a wingspan and weigh.

Blue-morph birds are rare among the Greater Snow Geese and among eastern populations of the Lesser.

Greater Snow Geese in flight

The population of Greater Snow Geese was in decline at the beginning of the 20th century, but has now recovered to sustainable levels.

The Central Flyway bird species include trumpeter swans, tundra swans, over one million Canadian geese, Greater White-fronted Geese, Sandhill Cranes, Canvasback ducks and others.

The funnel-shaped outline of Hudson and James bays causes birds migrating from the Arctic to concentrate at the southern end of James Bay each autumn, particularly in the late autumn, where the extensive coastal wetlands provide critical staging and moulting areas for migrating Lesser Snow Geese, dabbling ducks and shorebirds such as Red Knot, Short-billed Dowitcher, Dunlin, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Ruddy Turnstone, and American Golden Plover.

Buzzard 3 breeding pairs Kestrel Marsh Harrier breeding pair Peregrine Falcon Long-Eared Owl Short Eared Owl Cormorant Canada Geese Coot Moorhen Grey Heron Kingfisher Pheasant Mute Swan 2 breeding pair Fieldfare Long-tailed Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Redwing Starlings Woodpigeon Song Thrush Yellow Hammer Crow Rook Raven Greater Spotted Woodpecker European Green Woodpecker Sparrow Blackbird Robin House Martin Swallow Swift Skylark Cetti's, Reed, Warbler Goldcrest Wren Grey and Pied Wagtail Barn Owl Chaffinch Wheatear Chiff-Chaff Sand Martin Yellow Hammer Linnet Duck Teal Herring Gull Mediterranean Gull Jay

The bog is also occasionally used for feeding by Greater White-fronted Geese.

Each borough contains a number of localities ( Ortsteile ), which often have historic roots in older municipalities that predate the formation of Greater Berlin on 1 October 1920 and became urbanized and incorporated into the city.

Carriages are not organized to increase seating capacity even in the case of commuting longer than 50 km and commuters in Greater Tokyo Area have to stand in the train for more than an hour.

Hospitals in the Greater Dayton area have an estimated combined employment of nearly 32, 000, a yearly economic impact of $ 6. 8 billion.

Economic improvements in the 1990s have attracted a large number of global pharmaceutical, information and communications technology companies to the city and Greater Dublin Area.

Outside the limited boundaries of the old city, a variety of arrangements have governed the wider area since 1855, culminating with the creation of the Greater London administrative area in 1965.

The boundaries of Greater Poland have varied somewhat throughout history.

In 1969 it recommended a system of single-tier unitary authorities for the whole of England, apart from three metropolitan areas of Merseyside, Selnec ( Greater Manchester ) and West Midlands ( Birmingham and the Black Country ), which were to have both a metropolitan council and district councils.

The Greater Honeyguide guides humans to wild bee hives and this behavior may have evolved with early hominids

Sumatra, Java, Madura, and Kalimantan lie on the Sunda Shelf and geographers have conventionally grouped them, ( along with Sulawesi ), as the Greater Sunda Islands.

The idea of uniting former British and Dutch colonial possessions in Southeast Asia actually have its roots in early 20th century, as the concept of Greater Malay ( Melayu Raya ) was coined in British Malaya espoused by students and graduates of Sultan Idris Training College for Malay Teachers in the late 1920s.

The reference stated that Jabir said, " The Prophet ... returned from one of his battles, and thereupon told us, ' You have arrived with an excellent arrival, you have come from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad — the striving of a servant ( of Allah ) against his desires ( holy war ).

By 2010 under one of the National Key Economic Areas ( NKEA ) and under the Government Transformation Programme ( GTP ), the federal government have announced to improve the public transport system by building a Mass Rapid Transit ‘”( MRT )”’ system in the Klang Valley / Greater KL.

Although Bryant's and Gates are the two definitive Kansas City barbecue restaurants they have just recently begun expanding outside of the Greater Kansas City Area.

This family was once broken into two subfamilies, Hapalemurinae ( bamboo lemurs and the Greater Bamboo Lemur ) and Lemurinae ( the rest of the family ), but molecular evidence and scent glands similarities have since placed the Ring-tailed Lemur with the bamboo lemurs and the Greater Bamboo Lemur.

* 844 – Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Spanish rebels and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba.

As the ceded territories were not restored to Nepal by the British when freedom was granted to the people of British India, these have become a part of the Republic of India ( see Greater Nepal ).

For instance, variants of Pan-Germanism have different ideas about what constituted Greater Germany, including the confusing term Grossdeutschland, which, in fact, implied the inclusion of huge Slavic minorities from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

More problematic interpretations suggest that it could also have reached as far south as Rochdale in Greater Manchester, recorded in the Domesday Book as Recedham.

The relief of Greater Poland, geological conditions and soil have been shaped by two glaciations:

Different forms of dialectical reasoning have emerged throughout history from the Indosphere ( Greater India ) and the West ( Europe ).

Disputed records from ancient China indicate that the Han Chinese might have known of the existence of the main island of Taiwan since the Three Kingdoms period ( 3rd century, 230 AD ), having assigned offshore islands in the vicinity names like Greater Liuqiu and Lesser Liuqiu ( etymologically, but perhaps not semantically, identical to Ryūkyū in Japanese ), though none of these names has been definitively matched to the main island of Taiwan.

The same year, on 16 August, Eadred was consecrated by Archbishop Oda of Canterbury at Kingston upon Thames ( Surrey, now Greater London ), where he appears to have received the submission of Welsh rulers and northern earls.