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12 unusual facts about Oakville


Andrew Sznajder

A native of Oakville, Ontario, Sznajder achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 46 in September 1989.

Bill Gairdner

William ("Bill") Gairdner (born October 19, 1940 in Oakville, Ontario) attended Appleby College in Oakville, and is now a resident of Willowdale, Ontario.

Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act

Saad Gaya from Oakville, a fellow suspect in the same case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

ISIC

Information Music (an R&D project under the auspices of the Telecommunications Technology program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario).

Jeff Batchelor

He attended Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario from grades 7-12 and is currently enrolled in the commerce program at Queens University as a member of the class of 2010.

Katrina Von Sass

Katrina Von Sass (born January 25, 1972 in Oakville, Ontario) is a retired female volleyball player from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mark Forward

Mark Forward is a Canadian comedian from Oakville, Ontario.

Oakville, Alabama

It preserves twenty 2,000-year-old mounds built by Middle Woodland-era (1-500 CE) prehistoric indigenous peoples.

Oakville, Missouri

Oakville High School and Mehlville High School are the two high schools in the Mehlville School District.

Shan Virk

He moved to Oakville, Canada and got involved in the automotive industry and established his business.

Shayama Ananda

They have a daughter, Mandeera Anandi Perera (who presently lives in Australia) and a son Ritchie Rasanga Perera who resides in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

St. Bass

Bred by Harry Giddings at his Cedar Grove Stud in Oakville, his sire, Bassetlaw, was a son of the outstanding runner and nine-time Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland, St. Simon.


Bramwell Tillsley

Upon commissioning, they were appointed corps officers in Windsor, Nova Scotia, followed by Oakville, Ontario.

Dave Albritton

Both were born in Alabama, Albritton in Danville and Owens in nearby Oakville; both attended East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio; both attended the Ohio State University; both were members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; both competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Ferrone

Dan Ferrone (born April 3, 1958, in Oakville, Ontario) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League from 1981 to 1992.

Geography of Mississauga

Mississauga is bounded by Oakville and Milton to the west/southwest, Brampton to the north, Toronto to the east, and Lake Ontario to the south/south-east.

George Chisholm

George King Chisholm (1814–1874), first mayor of Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Guy Delisle

Delisle studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal.

Healey Willan

Healey Willan Park is a local public park named in his honour, situated immediately to the east of The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, on the site of the former convent of the Sisters of the Church, which had relocated first to Oakville and later to Burlington.

KFMY

KOMO-FM, a radio station (97.7 FM) licensed to Oakville, Washington, United States, which held the call sign KFMY from 1999 to 2009

KOMO

KOMO-FM, a radio station (97.7 FM) licensed to Oakville, Washington, United States

Mad Mad World

The album was produced by Joe Hardy and was recorded in Memphis, Tennessee and at three different Ontario studios: Metalworks in Mississauga, Hungry Hollow Studio in Georgetown and at Cochrane's cabin in Oakville.

Malone-Porter, Washington

The CDP combines the area around Malone and Porter, two small towns located just off U.S. Route 12, southeast of Elma and northwest of Oakville, and along a shortline that is part of Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad.

Martin Wostenholme

Wostenholme, who resided in Oakville, had his best results on clay; a semi-finals appearance at the Guaruja, Brazil Grand Prix event in 1988 and 1991; a quarter-finals showing in the Stuttgart Outdoor Grand Prix event in 1989; and a semi-finalist in the Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix event in 1990.

Meet Bill

Scenes were also shot at: the Oberweis Dairy in Oakville, Missouri, in Dick's Sporting Goods store at West County Mall, in Des Peres, Missouri, at the Saint Louis Galleria in Richmond Heights, Missouri, and an exterior scene at Molly Brown's Fireworks in Pacific, Missouri.

Neyagawa, Osaka

Neyagawa entered a Sister City relationship with Newport News, Virginia (US), in 1982, and with Oakville, Ontario (Canada), in 1984, where a boulevard is named after the city.

Novus Biologicals

Novus Biologicals is a biotech company based in Littleton, Colorado, USA with international offices in Oakville, ON, Canada and the Cambridge Science Park in Cambridge, UK.

Oakville Armoury

The armoury is used by 'A' Company of the Lorne Scots and the Oakville Army Cadets for weekly training which involves mainly infantry and army cadet related training.

Right At Home Realty

RAH currently has over 2,300 brokers and salespeople within their organization and have offices in Toronto, Mississauga/Brampton, Oakville, Burlington/Hamilton, Durham and Richmond Hill.

Rochester Midland Corporation

With sales and operations in nearly seventy countries, production facilities in Rochester, New York, Aurora, Illinois and Oakville, Ontario, Rochester Midland Corporation sells a wide range of stuff including toilet seat covers, feminine sanitary napkins, and chemical products servicing janitorial, food safety, institutional and waste water treatment industries.

Trafalgar Moraine

The Trafalgar Moraine is approximately 20 km long, 30 m high and 4 km wide, extending from the Niagara Escarpment north of Nelson to Streetsville in an east-northeast trend; at the Oakville boundary, the trend shifts northeast.

Walt Elliot

He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election, but lost to Progressive Conservative incumbent Jim Snow by about 6,500 votes in the constituency of Oakville.