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7 unusual facts about southern Ontario


Brunch

In many regions of Canada, in particular in Southern Ontario, brunch is popular on Sundays when families will often host relatives or friends in their dining room.

Canadian Junior Hockey League

To determine a National Champion, the winners of each league playdown in three regional championships—the Fred Page Cup (Eastern Region - Maritimes, Quebec, Ottawa District), the Dudley Hewitt Cup (Central Region - Southern Ontario, Northeastern Ontario, Northwestern Ontario), and the Western Canada Cup (Western Region - Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia).

Gary Stackhouse

He has worked in news, production and creative writing in addition to hosting on air shows in New Brunswick and in Southern Ontario at Brantford's CKPC-FM 92.1.

Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League

The Mid-Ontario Junior B Hockey League was a Junior "B" ice hockey league based in Southern Ontario.

Ontario Hockey League

Out of the 17 teams based in Ontario, 12 teams are in Southern Ontario, two teams are in Eastern Ontario and 3 teams are in Northern Ontario.

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.

Western Ontario Hockey League

The realignment meant that the OHA had consolidated the Southern Ontario region from 7 to 5 Junior "B" leagues.


Caledonia Mill

Since 2008 the Caledonia Mill has been home to one of the largest winter light displays in Southern Ontario.

Moravian Indian Reserve No. 47

Following the Gnadenhutten massacre near present day Gnadenhutten, Ohio, on March 8, 1782, a group of surviving Christian Munsees left that area led by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, eventually reestablishing their community in what is today southern Ontario Canada.

Quinte West

Quinte West is a city, formerly part of Hastings County, but now a Separated municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, .


see also

2nd/10th Dragoons

The 2nd/10th Dragoons (short-form: 2/10 D) (in its last incarnation, the 57th Field Artillery Regiment 2nd/10th Dragoons, Royal Canadian Artillery or 57 FD REGT RCA) was a militia regiment of the Canadian Army, based in the Niagara, Wentworth and Brant regions of southern Ontario.

Bexley Township

While Bexley lies almost entirely within the Paleozoic limestone region of southern Ontario, the small portion of the Gull River valley north of Silver Lake lying within the township is within the Precambrian Canadian Shield region.

Cornus florida

Cornus florida (flowering dogwood) is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America, from southern Maine west to southern Ontario, Illinois, and eastern Kansas, and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas, with a disjunct population in Nuevo León and Veracruz in eastern Mexico.

Enemion biternatum

Enemion biternatum (also Isopyrum biternatum), commonly known as the False Rue-anemone, is a spring ephemeral native to moist deciduous woodland in the eastern United States and extreme southern Ontario.

Frank Sheehan

Sheehan was elected to the legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating Liberal Harry Pelissero by about 8,000 votes in the southern Ontario riding of Lincoln (NDP incumbent Ron Hansen was third).

Frederick Haldimand

He also helped settle the Six Nations that had been driven out of New York during the war, issuing what is now known as the Haldimand Proclamation, awarding them a tract of land on the Grand River in what is now southern Ontario.

Great Lakes Life Magazine

In its first two years, Erie Life Magazine saw an unprecedented growth, increasing distribution from only 25 small, independent retail locations to over 640 big box retail points in four states and southern Ontario including Barnes & Noble, Borders, Wegmans Food Markets, Walmart, Walgreens, Country Fair, Giant Eagle Grocery Stores, Chapters, and Indigo Books and Music.

Harry J. Boyle

Boyle's writing was primarily autobiographical fiction dealing with life in rural southern Ontario during the interwar period.

Horseshoe Valley

Horseshoe Resort, formerly Horseshoe Valley Ski Club, in southern Ontario, Canada

Knob Hill Farms

Another mural facing the south side featuring Southern Ontario from downtown Toronto, with a street written as "Baloor" instead of Bloor Street and the Don Valley Parkway, the western suburbs, the Hamilton Mountain, Niagara Falls and near Fort Erie.

OTW

otw, the ISO 639-3 language code for Ottawa language, a dialect of the Ojibwe language, spoken by the Ottawa people in southern Ontario in Canada, and northern Michigan in the United States

Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2005

The Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2005 in a series of thunderstorms on the afternoon of August 19, 2005, spawned tornadoes damaging homes in the Conestoga Lake, Fergus, and Tavistock areas.

The Trews

In the early summer of 2002 the band entered Rocksearch, a high profile contest that is held annually by CHTZ-FM, a St. Catharines (Southern Ontario) rock radio station.