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Ontario is the most populous of Canada's provinces, with a population of about 12,000,000 (2004). The people of Ontario are called Ontarians.
Ontario has many large cities, including Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, London, Windsor and Sudbury.
While the majority of the population of Ontario is anglophone, there are large francophone populations in the north and in Eastern Ontario.
Hamilton is a city located in Canada, in the province of Ontario. It is currently the 8th largest city in Canada, with a population estimated at 714,900 in the metropolitan area. [1] Within the city itself the population was 490,268 in the 2001 census.
Its nicknames — all relating to its waning days as a major industrial centre — include the Ambitious City, Steeltown, the Hammer, Hammertown, and the Lunchbucket City. However, health care has outstripped heavy industry — exemplified by the twin steel giants of Stelco and Dofasco — as the largest employer. Moreover, the education, government, services and technology sectors have all dramatically developed as heavy industry has declined.
Also belying its unfounded reputation as cultural wasteland, Hamilton has built on its historical and social background. Interesting attractions include a museum of aircraft (Canadian Warplane Heritage[2]), a stately residence of a Prime Minister of Upper Canada (Dundurn Castle), a functioning nuclear reactor at McMaster University, a horticultural haven (Royal Botanical Gardens) and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
Downtown Ottawa is the central area of Ottawa, Canada. Like other downtowns it is the commercial and economic centre of the city. It is bordered by the Ottawa River to the north the Rideau Canal to the east, Somerset Street to the south and Bronson Avenue to the west. The area east of the canal but west of Nicholas Street, which includes the Rideau Centre and the Byward Market, is also normally considered downtown. The neighbourhoods around the central business district are also generally referred to as being downtown. These include Centretown to the south and Sandy Hill and Lower Town to the east. North of the Ottawa River the centre of Gatineau, Quebec can be considered an extension of Ottawa's downtown.
- ...that the CN Tower in Toronto is not the tallest structure in the world (it's the tallest freestanding, but not the tallest in general)?
- ...that the National Capital Region has 1.1 million people?
- ...that Windsor has the highest humidity in Canada?
- ...that Ontario has the highest GDP out of all the provinces in Canada?
- ...that Highway 401 is the busiest highway in North America?
- Help expand stubs!: There are numerous stub articles relating to Ontario. You can help by expanding them. See Ontario stubs for a list. Also, for geographical (places) stubs, refer to:
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- Eastern Ontario: Eastern Ontario geography stubs
- Toronto: Toronto geography stubs
- Ottawa: Ottawa stubs - All stubs relating to Ottawa in general
- Northern Ontario: Northern Ontario geography stubs
- Western Ontario: Western Ontario geography stubs
- Golden Horseshoe: Golden Horseshoe geography stubs
- Central Ontario and inter-region locations: Ontario geography stubs - generic geography stub level now only used for geography that cannot fit in one of the categories above.
