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unusual facts about Toronto, Ontario, Canada



2007 International Bowl

The on-air ESPN crew included John Saunders, who was born and raised in Toronto and graduated from WMU; and Doug Flutie, who played two seasons with the Toronto Argonauts, both of which ended in Grey Cup championships.

A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Air Hogs

Air Hogs is a line of toy airplanes, helicopters, rockets, and cars manufactured by the Spin Master company in Toronto, Canada.

Anand Rajaram

He has done theatre work with CanStage, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Odyssey Theatre and others, as well as producing and presenting his own works, Hys Unauthoryzed Lyfe and Tymes (2001), and Cowboys & Indians (2005), both at the Summerworks Theatre Festival with Bob Wiseman in Toronto.

Andre Champagne

Andre Joseph Orius Champagne (born September 19, 1943 in Eastview, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey left winger.

Arc flash

The Canadian Standards Association's CSA Z462 Arc Flash Standard is Canada's version of NFPA70E.

Bernardo Padrón

After graduating from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music Performance program in 1986, Bernardo played tenor and alto sax in the Toronto Latin musical community, as well as recording with various local jazz projects (Don Valley Parkway, Mosaic) as a sideman.

Bob McFarlane

For those achievements, he was voted the Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's top athlete of 1950 and the winner of the Norton Crowe Memorial Medal as Canada's top amateur athlete.

Club 6

The show was produced from a selected high school in Toronto.

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Dave Gunning

The track "A Game Goin' On" from Gunning's album No More Pennies was submitted to the Great Canadian Song Quest (2013 edition: Hockey Night In Canada Song Quest).

Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire

It is also famous for being the birthplace of the Anglo-Canadian poet and literary scholar, Robin Skelton (1925–97).

Economy of Hamilton, Ontario

Bunge is an oilseed processing plant and Canada’s largest canola processor.

Footprints Recruiting

Footprints Recruiting is an ESL teacher placement agency headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Ford Nation

The show featured two sitting Toronto politicians, Mayor Rob Ford and his brother, City Councilor Doug Ford, Jr., and was pulled from the network after only one airing on November 18, 2013.

Gabriel Varga

He returned to the ring on January 8, 2011 at a Canada vs. China event in Jinan, China where he won by unanimous decision under sanshou rules.

George Leith

George Gordon Leith (1923–1996), a politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Gray squirrel

The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), from the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; introduced into Britain, Ireland, western North America, Italy, and South Africa

Gyro tower

Spirale,La Ronde,Montreal,Quebec,Canada (Opened in 1967 double cabin)

Hayden Lake, Idaho

The Purcell Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet flowed south from Canada, carving the basin of present-day Lake Pend Oreille and damming the Clark Fork river.

Honeoye

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

Howard Goldfarb

Howard Goldfarb is a Canadian poker player, chiefly noted as the runner-up of the 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

Joanna De Souza

In 1988, they moved to Toronto and together, established M-DO/Kathak Toronto and the Toronto Tabla Ensemble.

John Kalbhenn

John Kalbhenn (born April 14, 1963 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a retired boxer from Canada, who competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Juana Muñoz-Liceras

Juana Muñoz-Liceras is Professor of Hispanic and General Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Julius Grey

Grey defended La servante écarlate by Margaret Atwood, the French version of The Handmaid's Tale, in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004.

Kanatak

Kanatak Lake (or Kanata Lakes), a neighbourhood officially referred to as Marchwood-Lakeside within the northern section of Kanata, Ontario, Canada.

Lawrence Kasha

Kasha had directed a season of summer stock productions at the Colonie Summer Theatre in Latham, New York in 1959, but his first major directing assignment came in 1962 with Guys and Dolls and The Most Happy Fella at the O'Keefe Center in Toronto.

Legal status of animals in Canada

When the Conservative Party came to power in 2006, MP Mark Holland tabled a private member’s bill that was virtually identical to Bill C-50, the most recent incarnation of C-17.

Maelstrom

Skookumchuck Narrows is a tidal rapids that develops whirlpools, on the Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), Canada.

Mark Romanchuk

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

Marty Adams

TV appearances include seventeen episodes (as of 25 August 2010) of Video on Trial and commercials for (Staples Inc., Fallsview Casino).

Masajiro Miyazaki

Miyazaki was born in the vicinity of Hikone City in Japan and moved to Canada in 1913 with his father.

Michael Henry Herbert

He created with the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay a joint commission to establish the border between the U.S. district of Alaska and British interests in the Dominion of Canada, where gold had been found in the 1890s, which resulted in the definitive Alaskan boundary treaty of 1903.

Montrose Swing Bridge

1910 to carry the Canada Southern Railway over the river (click the link to see a discussion of companies who used the Canada Southern tracks over the years).

Muon spin spectroscopy

This is presently achieved at few large scale facilities in the world: the CMMS continuous source at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada; the SµS continuous source at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland; the ISIS and RIKEN-RAL pulsed sources at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, United Kingdom; and the J-PARC facility in Tokai, Japan, where a new pulsed source is being built to replace that at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan.

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.

Preet Banerjee

Preet Banerjee (born September 27, 1977) is the host of the television show Million Dollar Neighbourhood on the Oprah Winfrey Network, a personal financial expert, and winner of the reality TV series The Ultimate W Expert Challenge, which aired on the W Network in Canada during the summer of 2009.

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.

Reid Jamieson

He performed the song live with Margo Timmins at the release at The Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto On Nov 22a and 23, 2013.

Riza Santos

Santos competed at the 2013 edition of Miss Universe Canada held in Toronto where she was hailed 1st Runner up to Denise Garrido.

Rogers Communications

While Ted Rogers was an articling student with Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington, he started Rogers Radio Broadcasting Limited, which acquired Canada's pioneer FM station, CHFI-FM.

S. Narasinga Rao

He then moved to McMaster University in Canada where he received a second Master of Science degree in 1969 followed by a PhD in biophysics in 1973 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, through Center for Crystallographic Research, Roswell Park Memorial Institute.

Sophie Atkinson

Taking advantage of Canadian Pacific’s free passes to artists and writers, she travelled from British Columbia through Canada to Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal.

The Pas

In Canada and elsewhere, the book is used as part of school reading, and so despite its size, The Pas is widely known to several generations of Canadians, much as the town of Hannibal, Missouri is known to many from Mark Twain's writings.

Vincent Smith

Vincent Reynolds Smith (1890–1960), a judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Wong Foon Sien

He supported the Liberal Party of Canada throughout his life, but supported Progressive Conservative candidate Douglas Jung in the Canadian federal elections of 1957 and 1958.

YLC

The Young Liberals of Canada, the national youth wing of the Liberal Party of Canada

Youth ministry

There are organizations within the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (the primary organization of Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States), as well as within the Canadian Unitarian Council (the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada), which minister to and with youth, of which Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) is the largest and most apparent.


see also

Bau-Xi Photo

Bau-Xi Photo is a fine art photography gallery located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Beach Hebrew Institute

The Beach Hebrew Institute was founded in 1919 by Jewish residents in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was then a largely Anglo-Saxon area in the east part of Toronto far removed from the Jewish neighbourhoods further to the west in The Ward and around Spadina Avenue.

Beltline Trail

The Beltline Trail, designated the Kay Gardner Beltline Park east of Allen Road until Mount Pleasant Road, the Ravine Beltline Trail south of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery through the Moore Park Ravine, and the York Beltline Trail west of the Allen, is a 9 km cycling and walking trail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Bernard Dov Cooperman

Bernard Dov Cooperman (born October 9, 1946 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Louis L. Kaplan Associate Professor of Jewish History at the University of Maryland in the Department of History.

Big Jack Armstrong

Larsh moved on, working at other 50,000 watt stations like WMEX-1510 in Boston; CHUM-1050 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; KFI-640 in Los Angeles, KTNQ-/1020 in Los Angeles and WKBW-1520 in Buffalo, New York.

Cardinal Carter

Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts, Catholic arts high school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cherry Street Bridge

Cherry Street Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge, a bascule bridge and Warren truss in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cherry Street lift bridge, a bascule lift bridge on Cherry Street, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CHFI

CHFI-FM, a radio station (98.1 FM) licensed to Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CHIN

CHIN Radio/TV International, a media company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CJBC

CJBC-FM, a radio station (90.3 FM) licensed to Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Collège Français

Le Collège français, a public French-language high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Didi Seven

It is created by the Interwood Direct corporation of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Donny George Youkhanna

He died on 11 March 2011 as a result of a heart attack while he was travelling via Toronto Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Edenbridge

Humber Valley Village, a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, commonly referred to as Edenbridge-Humber Valley

EQuibbly

eQuibbly is an online dispute resolution (ODR) service launched in 2012 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that provides people and companies with a quick, easy and fair way to resolve their disputes online.

Ernest MacMillan Family Home

The Sir Ernest MacMillan family home is a Toronto heritage property located at 115 Park Road, in the Rosedale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Existere

Existere - Journal of Arts & Literature is a Canadian magazine, that publishes twice a year at York University's Vanier College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

First Encounter Tour 1996

First Encounter Tour 1996 was recorded at various concert venues around the United States in 1996 and was produced by noted keyboardist and ambient musician Tim Story at Zeta in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Gary V. Nelson

Gary Vincent Nelson (born 1953) is an urban missiologist and President and CEO of Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Humber Bay Park

Humber Bay Park is a waterfront park located in Etobicoke part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

I Got Id

At Pearl Jam's May 10, 2006 concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Air Canada Centre, Vedder revealed that the song's chorus melody was inspired by the verse melody in Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" from the 1969 album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.

Icyball

IcyBall was a name given to two early refrigerators, one made by Australian Sir Edward Hallstrom in 1923, and the other design patented by David Forbes Keith of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (filed 1927, granted 1929), and manufactured by American Powel Crosley Jr., who bought the rights to the device.

Jang Bahadur Rana

The descendants of Jung and Ranodip live today in North India (mainly Dehra Dun, Allahabad and Udaipur) and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some did return to Nepal and live in Kathmandu, Nepalgunj and Pokhara.

Keith Bancroft

Claude Keith Bancroft (30 October 1885 in Fontabelle, St Michael, Barbados – 12 January 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the second West Indian touring side to England in 1906 as their wicket-keeper.

Kieran Sells

Kieran Sells (born March 30, 1984) is a production assistant on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! Sells, who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, began his show business career by appearing as a child extra in many movies, including John Carpenter's 1995 cult classic, In the Mouth of Madness.

Mail2web

Mail2web.com is an e-mail retrieval service started in 1997 by SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc., a private company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

McKenzie College

William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute, a public secondary school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Merkin Ball

At Pearl Jam's May 10, 2006 concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Air Canada Centre, Vedder revealed that the song's chorus melody was inspired by the verse melody in Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" from the 1969 album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.

National Instruments Electronics Workbench Group

Circa 1995, the company was founded as Interactive Image Technologies in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Joe Koenig, and specialized in producing educational movies and documentaries.

Number nine

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

Oakwood–Vaughan

Oakwood–Vaughan is a multicultural neighbourhood in the York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

R. Irving Parkes

Robert Irving Parkes (Born July 8, 1886 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada-died September 23, 1964 in Manhattan, New York City) was a Canadian athlete.

Rachael Crawford

Rachael Crawford (born c. 1969 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an actress best known for her roles in Brewster Place, Here and Now, and Show Me Yours, as well as guest appearances on various television series such as Cold Squad, Crossing Jordan, and more recently The Firm and Suits.

Robin Dunne

He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and attended The Etobicoke School of the Arts.

Rouge Hill GO Station

Rouge Hill is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located at 6251 Lawrence Avenue East, near the former Port Union station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Shoppers World

Shoppers World Danforth and Shoppers World Albion (now the Albion Centre), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sigmaxl

It is distributed by SigmaXL Inc., a privately owned company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Tartu College

Tartu College is an independently owned and maintained student residence on the north side of Bloor Street West, just east of Madison Avenue, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Terrence Haynes

Terrence Elton Haynes (born October 5, 1984 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a two-time Olympic swimmer from Barbados.

The Beach

The Beaches, a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, also commonly known as "The Beach"

The Mistake on the Lake

Exhibition Stadium, a former professional sports venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario; site demolished in 1999

The Printing House

The Printing House Ltd. (TPH) is a Canadian printing company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Walter O'Hara

Colonel Walter O'Hara (ca. 1789 – 13 January 1874) was a prominent member of the British army in the 19th century, participating in battles fighting Napoleon, before immigrating to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he participated in the Rebellions of 1837 on the side of the government, defeating the rebels of William Lyon Mackenzie.

YFS

York Federation of Students, a member of the Canadian Federation of Students at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Young Inventors International

Young Inventors International has a membership of approximately 1400 with the world-wide headquarters located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.