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Ontário (em inglês e francês: Ontario) é uma das dez províncias do Canadá, está localizada no centro-leste do país. [ 5] É a província mais populosa do Canadá, representando 38,3% de toda a população do país, [ 6][ 7] além de ser a segunda maior província em área total, atrás somente de Quebec.
Ontario (/ ɒ n ˈ t ɛər i oʊ / ⓘ on-TAIR-ee-oh; French:) is the southernmost province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it is home to 38.5 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec).
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Ontario ( / ɒnˈtɛərioʊ / ⓘ on-TAIR-ee-oh; French: [ɔ̃taʁjo]) is the southernmost province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it is home to 38.5 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after ...
- Woodland Period
- Pays d'en Haut
- Province of Quebec
- Upper Canada
- Canada West
- Confederation and The Late-19Th Century
- 20th Century Ontario
- 21st Century Ontario
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The Woodland period directly followed the Archaic period. It saw the introduction of ceramics in the Early Woodland period, horticultural experimentation with different crops (notably maize, or corn) as well as elaborate burial ceremonialism during the Middle Woodland, and the emergence of agriculture and village settlements by the Late Woodland. E...
French explorer Étienne Brûlé surveyed part of the area in 1610–12. The English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson Bay in 1611 and claimed the area for England, but Samuel de Champlain reached Lake Huron in 1615. French Jesuit missionaries began to establish posts along the Great Lakes, forging alliances in particular with the Huron people. P...
With their victory in the Seven Years' War, the 1763 Treaty of Paris gave nearly all of France's North American possessions (New France) to Britain. Lands like Canada and the Pays d'en Haut were bundled together and renamed the Province of Quebec after the city of Quebec. The first English settlements in what is today Ontario occured in 1782–1784 i...
The Constitutional Act of 1791 recognized this development, as it split the Province of Quebec into the Canadas, Lower Canada east of the St. Lawrence-Ottawa River confluence, the area of earliest settlement; and Upper Canada southwest of the confluence. John Graves Simcoe was appointed Upper Canada's first Lieutenant-Governorin 1793.
Although both rebellions were put down in short order, the British government sent Lord Durham to investigate the causes of the unrest. He recommended that self-government be granted and that Lower and Upper Canada be re-joined in an attempt to assimilate the French Canadians. Accordingly, the two colonies were merged into the Province of Canada by...
A political stalemate between the French- and English-speaking legislators, as well as fear of aggression from the United States during the American Civil War, led the political elite to hold a series of conferences in the 1860s to effect a broader federal union of all British North American colonies. The British North America Act (BNA Act) took ef...
In 1912, Regulation 17 was a regulation introduced by the government of Ontario designed to shut down French-language schools at a time that Francophones from Quebec were moving into eastern Ontario. In July 1912, the Conservative government of Sir James P. Whitney issued Regulation 17, which severely limited the provision of French-language school...
From the late 20th century to the early 21st century, Ontario received the highest amount of immigrants in its history. Many of these immigrants came to concentrate themselves in Toronto and Brampton. From 2020 to 2021, Ontario's governement and population dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ontario is the most populous province in Canada. Southern Ontario is one of the densest regions in the country. The north is vast and sparse compared to the south. The national capital Ottawa is located in Ontario bordering Quebec.
- Ishpatina Ridge, 693 m (2,274 ft)
- Hudson Bay, sea level
- Lake Superior, 28,700 km² (11,100 sq mi), (Canadian portion only)
Ontario is a province of Canada. It is in the eastern half of Canada, between Manitoba and Quebec. Ontario has the most people of any province, with 13,150,000 in 2009, and is home to the biggest city in Canada, Toronto, which is also the capital of the province.
Há 2 dias · Ontario, second largest province of Canada in area, after Quebec. It occupies the strip of the Canadian mainland lying between Hudson and James bays to the north and the St. Lawrence River–Great Lakes chain to the south. The most populous Canadian province, it is home to more than one-third of Canada’s population.
