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Ontario

Most populous Canadian province

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Ontario is one of the provinces of Canada and is located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province accounting for 38% of the country's population, and is the second-largest province in total area. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is also Ontario's provincial capital.

Geographical type: Territory

Latitude: 50° N — Longitude: 85° W

Area: 1,076,395 km²

ISO 3166-2 code: CA-ON

Birthplace of

Nathaniel Branden, Nathan Blumenthal, in Brampton, on 9 Apr 1930

Cory Doctorow, in Toronto, on 17 Jul 1971

Vince Miller, Henry Vincent Miller, in London, on 11 Dec 1938

Isabel Paterson, Isabel Mary Bowler, in Manitoulin Island, on 22 Jan 1886

Neil Peart, Cornelius Ellwood Peart, in Hamilton, on 12 Sep 1952

V. Orval Watts, Vervon Orval Watts, in Walkerton, on 25 Mar 1898

Home To

Libertarian Party of Canada, Embrun

Freedom Party of Ontario, London

Ontario Libertarian Party, Scarborough

Deathplace of

Josiah Henson, in Dresden, on 5 May 1883

Jane Jacobs, in Toronto, on 25 Apr 2006

Measures of Freedom

Economic Freedom Summary Index, 5 Dec 2024
2022 overall score: 5.40, rank: 2

The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ontario" as of 31 Oct 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.