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unusual facts about Oxford, Ontario



2010 Men's World Floorball Championships Qualifying

The North American Qualifying rounds of the 2010 World Championships took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from February 5 to February 6, 2010.

Alexander Cadell

Cadell's great-uncle Vernon Royle represented Lancashire, Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club in first-class cricket.

Brampton Excelsiors

Brampton Excelsiors Jr. A, a box lacrosse team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who compete in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League

Castle Mill

Oxford University donors, such as Michael Moritz, and the University's Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Andrew Hamilton, have also been targeted with letters by the protesters, warning that the buildings "blot out the unique view of Oxford's Dreaming Spires from Port Meadow".

Charles Abdy Marcon

In 1891 he took over from William Henry Charsley as Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford, with the result that it was renamed Marcon's Hall.

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

CHOV

CHRO-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CHOV-TV from 1961 to 1977

Church of Pakistan

Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.

CKEY

CFLZ-FM, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CKEY-FM from 1991 to 2011

Cutteslowe Park, Oxford

This linked Water Eaton and Oxford, and a short section of this path (at the bottom of Harpes Road, Islip Road and Victoria Road in North Oxford) is called Water Eaton Road.

David Stanley Evans

Being a conscientious objector to World War II he spent the war years at Oxford with physicist Kurt Mendelssohn where they worked on medical problems relating to the war effort.

Dylan Hudecki

Dylan Hudecki (born in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician, who has been associated with the bands By Divine Right, Cowlick and Junior Blue.

Dyson Perrins Laboratory

It was founded with an endowment from Charles Dyson Perrins, heir to the Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce company, and stands on the north side of South Parks Road in Oxford.

Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act

Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border are highly populated with major population centres on both sides - Ottawa and Cornwall on the Ontario side, and Montreal and Hull on the Quebec side.

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.

Freedom Summer

Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).

George Clarke Chandler

George Clarke Chandler was born in Ontario, March 18, 1906 and died in Vancouver, BC April 20, 1964 at the age of 56.

Guy A. Sautter

John Arlott (Hrsg.): The Oxford companion to sports & games. Oxford University Press, London 1975

Guy Fithen

Guy L. Fithen (born 1962 in Oxford) is a British actor and screenwriter best known for his roles as a pirate.

Honeoye

Honeoye, New York, a hamlet in Ontario County, New York, on north end of Honeoye Lake

Horatio Luro

Taylor hired Luro to run his Windfields Farm, a large breeding and racing operation with two farms in Ontario and another in Chesapeake City, Maryland.

Impact Index

It was conceived by Jaideep Varma in March 2009 and unveiled in July that same year at the ICC Centenary Conference at Oxford.

Isabel Bassett

She served as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for St. Andrew—St. Patrick for the next four years.

Jessops

The relaunch of the Oxford Street store in London received considerable media interest and was attended by celebrities including the actor James Corden.

Kazutoshi Nagahama

Nagahama's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 33rd in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit at Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1995.

Lee and Herring

At Oxford, Lee and Herring performed in a regular comedy revue called The Seven Raymonds, which also included the material and performance of Emma Kennedy, Michael Cosgrave and Tim Richardson.

Mark Romanchuk

Romanchuk represents the 124,475 residents of Richland County, including Mansfield, Shelby, Ontario, Lexington and Bellville, Ohio.

Nancy Nicholson

The following year Graves started as a student in Oxford.

New Theatre Oxford

The New Theatre Oxford (known, for a period, as the Apollo Theatre Oxford or simply The Apollo from 1977–2003) is the main commercial theatre in Oxford, England and has a capacity of 1,800 people.

Number nine

Number 9 Audio Group, a recording studio located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ogyges

Hammond, N.G.L. and Howard Hayes Scullard (editors), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, second edition, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Ontario Government Buildings

The massive construction site for the Ontario Government Buildings was the filming location for Buster Keaton's last film, "The Reporter," an industrial safety short that was released under the title The Scribe.

Ontario Hockey Association

Only three teams from Ontario ever won the Hardy Cup (that ran from 1968–1990), two from the OHA: Georgetown Raiders in 1982 and Dundas Real McCoys in 1986.

Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding

His grandfather, Frewen, was the first Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford from 1908 in the newly created Department of Engineering Science, and the namesake of the Jenkin Building at Oxford.

Phil Kennedy

Phil's radio career began on Radio Jackie when it was still a pirate radio station, he then moved to Top Shop's instore radio station on London's Oxford Street.

Richard Towgood

Having taken orders about 1615, he preached in the neighbourhood of Oxford, till he was appointed master of the grammar school in College Green, Bristol.

Robert Morrison MacIver

His work in that field was distinguished by his acumen, his philosophical understanding, and extensive study of the major pioneering works of Durkheim, Toennies, Max and Alfred Weber, Simmel and others in the British Museum Library in London, while resident as a student in Oxford.

Robert V. Jackson

He was raised in Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) where his father worked on the copper mines and was educated at Falcon College in Rhodesia and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he rose to the presidency of the Oxford Union.

Roderick Rose

Roderick Rose (born Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada May 15, 1838; died Jamestown, North Dakota, September 10, 1903) was a Canadian-born American educator, lawyer, politician, and judge.

Roger Dodsworth

The manuscripts were left to Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who by his will bequeathed them (160 volumes in all) to the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

Samuel Lyness Howe

He was born in St. Vincent township, Grey County, Ontario, the son of Andrew Howe and Margaret Lyness, and was educated at the Ontario College of Pharmacy.

Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator

The album was released in 1991 and recorded live in London and Kitchener (misspelled in the liner notes at "Kitchner") Ontario, Canada, in October 1990.

Sir Nicholas Crispe, 1st Baronet

He promptly slipped away to Oxford, where he was warmly welcomed by the King, but his houses in Hammersmith and Lime Street were ransacked.

Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League

The Southern Ontario Junior A Hockey League was a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey that lasted from the late 1960s until 1977 in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Teddy Hall

The nickname of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford

The Motor Bus

The poem traditionally commemorates the introduction of a motorised omnibus service in the city of Oxford (Corn and High are the colloquial names of streets in the centre of the city where several Colleges of the University are located), thereby shattering the bucolic charm of the horse-drawn age.

Thomas Glazier

Thomas Glazier of Oxford (fl. 1386-1427) was a master glazier active in England during the late 14th and early 15th century; he is one of the earliest identifiable stained glass artists, and is considered a leading proponent of the International Gothic style.

Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

Sir John Henry Lefroy, a pioneer in the study of terrestrial magnetism served as director of the magnetic observatory from 1842 to 1853; In 1960, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ministry of Citizenship and Culture erected a Provincial Military Plaque in his honour on the University of Toronto campus.

Tumbi

20 Inch by Master P (featuring Jamaican reggae artist Cutty Ranks and rap artist Kobra Khan) included tumbi played by Toronto, Ontario, Canadian native Shawn Ramta (grandson of the famous Punjabi folk singer, Hazara Singh Ramta).


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