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Ontario

	Lieutenant Governor	Edith Dumont	0	+100.00%
	Ontario Court of Appeal
	ON Municipalities
	ON Senate	Independent Senators Group	0	+41.67%
	Ontario Provincial Police
Institutions
	ON Premier	Doug Ford	8	+42.74%
Parliament
	ON House of Commons	Liberal Party	0	+33.88%
Party Leadership
	Liberal Party Leader	Bonnie Crombie	4	+6.82%
	NDP Leader	Marit Stiles	5	+100.00%
	PC Party Leader	Doug Ford	8	+1.25%
Provincial Parliament
	ON Legislative Assembly	Ontario Progressive Conservative Party	0	+42.74%
Referenda
	Referenda	No	56	+26.36%

State DETAILS

Parents

> Canada

Website

http://www.gov.on.ca

Established

July 01, 1867

Disbanded

Still Active

Contributor

Monsieur

Last Modified

Campari_007 February 02, 2025 11:45am

Description

Ontario is a province located in east-central Canada and is considered one of the provinces of Central Canada. Along with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Quebec, it is one of the four original provinces of Canada when the nation was formed on July 1, 1867 by the British North America Act.

Ontario is bounded on the north by Hudson Bay and James Bay, on the east by Quebec, on the west by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Ontario's long American border is formed almost entirely by lakes and rivers, starting in Lake of the Woods and continuing to the Saint Lawrence River near Cornwall; it passes through the four Great Lakes Ontario shares with bordering states, namely Lakes Superior, Huron (which includes Georgian Bay), Erie, and Ontario.

The population of the province, as of 2006, is 12,686,952, representing approximately 38% of the Canadian population and making it the most populous province in the country.

The capital of Ontario is Toronto, which is also the largest city in Canada. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is also located in Ontario and is the province's second-largest city. Other major communities include Mississauga, Hamilton, London, Brampton, Markham, Windsor, Kitchener, Vaughan, Kingston, Thunder Bay, St. Catharines, and Sudbury.

The current Premier of the province is Hon. Doug Ford, Progressive Conservative. The current Lieutenant Governor is Hon. Edith Dumont.

The province takes its name from Lake Ontario, which in turn is derived from the Iroquois word Skanadario, meaning "beautiful lake" or "sparkling water".

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