• the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve in northern Ontario, Canada is the largest game preserve in the world?
• the Hockley Valley Provincial Nature Reserve in the Canadian province of Ontario supports a population of the nationally endangered Butternut?
• the Trumpeter Swans introduced into the Wye Marsh in the 1980s were the first seen in Ontario since 1884?
• the New York Central's engines 1290 and 1291 operated for more than 55 years on a single 62-mile (100 km) branch line in southwestern Ontario?
• the Hudson's Bay Company's Joseph Adams oversaw the creation of a trading post from which Ontario's first English settlement originated?
• the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area in Ontario will be the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world?
• the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben across Ontario from Montreal to Lake Nipissing, a depression formed by ancient faults, is a failed arm of the ancestor of the Atlantic Ocean?
• the graves of 13 Britons and a Jamaican trained at Royal Canadian Air Force Station Mount Hope during World War II, are still maintained in a local churchyard in Glanbrook, Ontario?
• the geologic features located within the Eramosa Karst are considered to be the best example of karst topography found in the Canadian province of Ontario?
• the Tutelo language, once spoken by Virginia Indians, was recorded by scholars in the late 19th century, who found speakers on a reserve in Ontario?
• the Permanent North American Gaeltacht (pictured) is an officially designated Irish speaking area in English/French speaking Ontario, Canada, the first of its kind outside of Ireland?
• the Canadian province of Ontario has had quality grades for cultivated Christmas trees (tree farm pictured) mandated by law since 1965?
• over 70,000 Dark-eyed Juncos have been counted in a single day at the Bird Observatory in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada?
• Ontario-based musical group Family Brown has received eighteen Canadian Country Music Association awards, more than any other artist in the association's history?
• David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
• Ontario's Film Classification Act, 2005 not only governs motion picture ratings, but also legally enforces ESRB's video game ratings?
• Ontario politician Jan Dukszta, a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown?
• Ontario has more universities, with 22, than any other Canadian province?
• Joseph Yuill and his wife Margaret operated Ontario's first travelling dairy?
• Gazell Macy DuBois designed the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67 (pictured) which looked like "a mess of paper triangles or mentally disarranged envelopes"?
• of the 81 Canadian casualties during Hurricane Hazel, 35 lived on Raymore Drive in Weston, Toronto, Ontario?
• member of the Order of Canada Carlo Cattarello received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, after he turned 80?
• doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s?
• although the Coronation grape has been described as having "an odd, off taste", it is the most-planted seedless table grape variety in southern Ontario?
• Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"?

Facts on topics related to Ontario

Canada

• "Too Hot", Alanis Morissette's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991, was a dance pop song?
• 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
• 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?
• Canada and Panama signed the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on August 11, 2009?
• Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany, costing Canada a potential gold medal?
• Canada issues special licence plates available only to war veterans?
• Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?
• Canada's first paper mill was built in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, in 1803?
• Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships?
• Canadian actress Cara Duff-MacCormick won a Theatre World Award for her role in Moonchildren, a play about coming of age during the Vietnam War era?

Quebec

• Canadian landscape ecologist André Bouchard used notarized acts to determine the composition of Quebec's forests at the time of colonization?
• geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years?
• Montreal Mayor Aldis Bernard was the first President of the Dental Association of the Province of Quebec when it was founded in 1869?
• Pierre Trudeau was "known to paddle" the Kazabazua River in Quebec?
• professional wrestling promoter Eddie Quinn is credited with making wrestling more popular in Quebec than any other sport except hockey?
• Quebec-born singer Alys Robi was subjected to a lobotomy in 1952, following a mental breakdown?
• Cape Wolstenholme of Ungava Peninsula is the northern-most tip of the Canadian province of Quebec?
• Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant?
• Harrington Lake in Quebec is the official country retreat of the Canadian Prime Minister?
• Jean Pouliot founded both major private TV networks in Quebec, TQS and TVA?

British Columbia

• "Calexico Kid" Primo Villanueva led UCLA to the NCAA football championship in 1954 and was inducted into the British Columbia Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2009?
• British Columbia's Creston Valley, the province's first Wildlife Management Area, is a Ramsar wetland of international importance and a global Important Bird Area?
• British Columbia's Disaster Response Route network, while mostly consisting of roads, also includes marine routes?
• British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferable-vote system?
• mitochondrial DNA testing of the 300 to 500-year-old Canadian "iceman" mummy Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi and current clans of British Columbia revealed 17 living relatives?
• Mount Bate, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is probably named after William Thornton Bate, a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War?
• volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia, Canada, remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined?
• General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
• Benjamin Pearse, later an influential provincial politician in British Columbia, came to Vancouver Island working for Hudson's Bay Company?
• British Columbia provincial highway 2 is a short road from Dawson Creek to the B.C./Alberta border?

Manitoba

• Manitoba politician Colin H. Campbell is said to have won his seat in the 1907 election by a margin of one vote?
• Gordon McMillan from Saskatchewan, Wally Grant from Minnesota's Iron Range, and Wally Gacek from Manitoba led the Michigan Wolverines to the first ever Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship in 1948?
• Tanco Mine in Manitoba, Canada, is the world's largest producer of caesium?

Alberta

• Alberta's Big-4 hockey league collapsed in 1921 following repeated accusations its teams were using ineligible players?
• oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison?
• Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta?
• veterinarian Martha Kostuch linked reproductive and immunological problems among cattle to sulphur dioxide emitted in the oil and gas industry in Alberta?
• British Columbia provincial highway 2 is a short road from Dawson Creek to the B.C./Alberta border?
• Charles Wilson Cross was re-appointed to the office of Attorney-General of Alberta after resigning in scandal, only to be fired by Premier Charles Stewart six years later?
• during the offseason, Canadian football linebacker, Raymond Fontaine, works as a roughneck in the Alberta oil fields?
• some historians believe that Edith Rogers was left out of the Alberta cabinet in 1935 because she was a woman?
• the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal forced the resignation of Alberta's first Premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford?
• the Bar U Ranch in Alberta, Canada, hosted both Prince Edward of Wales and the Sundance Kid?

Saskatchewan

• Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan, which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters?
• Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta?
• Saskatchewanian politician Charles McDonald first attracted public attention in 1918 when he assisted the capture of two bandits?
• General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
• David Laird negotiated the Qu'Appelle Lakes Treaty with resident natives of Saskatchewan in 1874 to procure land for the Canadian Pacific Railway?
• Gordon McMillan from Saskatchewan, Wally Grant from Minnesota's Iron Range, and Wally Gacek from Manitoba led the Michigan Wolverines to the first ever Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship in 1948?
• Judi Garman, raised by a Mennonite pastor on the Saskatchewan prairie, became the winningest coach in college softball history at Cal State Fullerton?
• Dr. Maurice Macdonald Seymour established the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League?
• Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada?
• a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada?

Nova Scotia

• John Adams served as a member of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia for 20 years, making him one of the council's longest-serving members?
• Ride the Lobster is an 800-kilometer long unicycle race around Nova Scotia?
• American writer Howard Norman stated there was a shorter distance between his unconscious life and his conscious life in Nova Scotia than anywhere else?
• although Mackerel scad are found from Nova Scotia to Rio de Janeiro, they do not seem common in the Gulf of Mexico?
• the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has 11 universities, including the University of King's College, the oldest university in British North America?
• the Bear River (pictured) in Nova Scotia was once about 15 percent longer than at present as it is now a drowned river valley?
• the Odyssey tanker spilled 43 million gallons of oil off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, in November 1988?