The main difference between the two is the addition of a portrait of Robert Harris and three more delegates to the London Conference of who were officially recognized in Based on Robert Cooper, Canada. Brainstorm with your class. What other words follow this pattern? Try using both the verbs and the new nouns in sentences. Skip to Main Content Area.
The Business of Parliament. Your Capital. Luxury Travel. The Great Outdoors. Scuba Diving. Peruvian Amazon Cruise. South Pacific. North America. Colors of Morocco. Costa Rica Adventure. Before the arrival of the European settlers, Algonquian- and Iroquoian-speaking Aboriginals had settled on the land.
Beginning in the s, French and British settlers arrived in Canada and began to work the land. After the American Revolution , many American colonists who were loyal to Britain moved to Ontario. They were known as United Empire Loyalists. In , the British enacted the Constitutional Act , which split Quebec into two parts.
Ontario was upstream of the St. In , the capital was moved to York now Toronto to protect it from American attacks. Throughout the nineteenth century, many immigrant groups moved to Upper Canada, including Germans, Scots and Mennonites. By , the population of Canada was about , Toronto became the first city in Ontario in In , Ontario and Quebec became separate provinces. This was declared in the British North America Act. Ontario is Canada's second largest province, covering more than 1 million square kilometres , square miles - an area larger than France and Spain combined.
Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to the south. Learn more about these resources below:. Ontario's many lakes, rivers and streams played a central role in the province's history and development. For Aboriginal peoples and the early European settlers, the lakes and rivers were a means of transportation and a source for food. Waterways determined the patterns of settlement as well as the patterns of industrialization.
Harvested wood is used to make building materials, pulp and paper and a wide range of other value-added products, such as furniture and flooring. But there is more than one kind of forest in Ontario. These include the deciduous forest of southern Ontario and the Great Lakes - St.
Lawrence Forest of central Ontario. Ontario's varied climate and geography support habitat for more than 3, species of plants, species of fish, 50 species of amphibians and reptiles, species of birds, and more than 81 species of mammals. In Ontario's southernmost regions, you will find prickly pear cactus and sassafras trees, while polar bears roam our northern tundra.
Common fish in Ontario include yellow perch, bluegill, northern pike, and walleye. The mammals that call Ontario home include beavers, black bears, muskrats, gray wolves, white-tailed deer and walrus. Familiar birds include blue jays, northern cardinals, great blue herons, red-tailed hawks, great horned owls and pileated woodpeckers.
Look carefully and you might see some reptiles and amphibians, including eastern garter snakes, northern leopard frogs, eastern massasauga rattlesnakes, midland painted turtles or one of 11 types of salamanders and newts.
Since then, Ontario's provincial parks have stood for protection of the natural environment and enjoyment of the great outdoors. Today, Ontario's vast system of parks and protected areas totals over 9 million hectares, and includes areas of magnificent old-growth forest, woodland caribou ranges, wilderness rivers, wetlands and habitat for rare and endangered plants and animals. Our parks attract about 10 million visitors each year and provide places for outdoor activities such as camping, hiking, swimming, canoeing, nature viewing and fishing.
Parks are also important for scientific research, environmental monitoring and outdoor education. Most importantly, Ontario's provincial parks will protect and conserve our rich natural and cultural heritage for the benefit of future generations. It produces more than 25 different metal and non-metal mineral products. Ontario stone was used to build the Ontario legislature, the federal parliament buildings in Ottawa, and the Canadian Embassy Washington, DC.
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