11 Ontario Canada Fun Facts will make you amazed

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada. It is located in east central Canada and is most populous province having 40% of country’s population and is second largest province in the total area. These Ontario Canada Fun Facts will make you amazed and make Ontario a very famous tourist destination in Canada.

Ontario is fourth largest place in total area when territories of Nunavut and Northwest Territories are included. Ontario is home to nation’s capital city i.e Ottawa and it is nation’s most populous city i.e Toronto.

Below are some fun facts about Ontario Canada that you will be amazed and will enjoy:

1. Longest Street in the World: The distinction of World’s longest street belongs to Yonge Street in Province of Ontario.

Lake Ontario is place from where Yonge Street starts and runs through Northern and Central Ontario to area of Rainy River, on Ontario Canada – Minnesota border, at distance over 1896 km/1178 miles.

Guinness Book of World Records claimed this as late as 1998. Most of the Yonge Street exists as Highway 11, north of Greater Toronto Due to development of GTA, old highway lives on side roads, overgrown wooded trails and dead end roads.

2. The Freshwater Beach, World’s Longest: Wasaga Beach is one of the most beautiful beach on Georgian Bay, it is one of the world’s longest and freshwater beach.

It is about 8.6 miles/14 km. Wasaga Beach is located for about 2 hours on northwest of Toronto.

3. Shortest Railway in North America: Thousands Island Railway is that which runs in Gananoque Ontario, it is in North America’s shortest railway just about 5.43 km/ 3.32 miles.

4. World’s Third Tallest Tower: Canada has third tallest tower in the world and it is names as CN Tower.

It was completed in 1975. The CN Tower stands 5’ and 1815’ tall. Paneled elevator floors in CN Tower are the highest tower in the world.

5. Ontario has World’s Largest Sony Big Screen: Inside Rogers Centre in Toronto you will find largest Sony big screen. It is World’s largest screen, it is about 33ft. X 110ft.

6. World’s Largest Coin: Big Nickel is located in Sudbury, it is world’s largest coin. It is giant reproduction of 1951 Canadian nickel, which is about 9 meters in diameter.

7. Lois Maxwell: Lois Maxwell was born in Kitchener Ontario, he was a regular columnist of Toronto Sun news.

8. Red-Nosed Reindeer: An animated TV movie “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was filmed, but entire soundtrack was recorded in a studio Toronto, Ontario. Most of the speaking and singing cast were Canadian. Paul Soles and Billie Mae Richard are neighbors in Ontario retirement community.

9. Guy Lombardo: Guy Lombardo was leader of big band era named The Royal Canadian and known for yearly rendition i.e Auld Lang Syne, which is played on new year at Time Square, New York City, was born in Ontario.

10. Canadarm & Canadarm2: World famous robotic manipulator known as Canadarm, which used aboard space shuttle and bigger brother as Canadarm2, it is an integral part of International Space Station, which were designed and manufactured at Spar Aerospace, which is based in Brampton Ontario, it is on northwest of Toronto.

11. Blackberry Smartphone:World famous Blackberry Smartphone was developed at Research, Waterloo Ontario facilities.

You can visit www.ontario.ca to know about Government Services in Ontario.