15 Amazing Facts About Orillia Ontario Canada

Amazing Facts About Orillia Ontario Canada make Orillia an amazing tourist place in Ontario. Orillia is a small and beautiful city in Ontario, Canada. It is situated in the Simcoe County between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. Although Orillia Ontario Canada is located in Simcoe County and is independent political.

 

It is part of Huronia regopm of the Central Ontario. According to 2016 census, population of Orillia was around 30,546.

In 1867,Orillia was incorporated as a village. Archaeologists have some uncovered evidence of fishing by Iroquois and Huron people in an area more than 4,000 years ago and sites were being used by Native Americans for hundreds of the years for fishing, hunting and trading.

Orillia is known as the “Sunshine City”, it is one of the large waterfront of city that attracts number of tourists to Orillia every year, as it also do number of cultural events and annual festivals.

Casino Rama is the largest employer of the area, economic activity in Orillia is mixture of different industries that include tourism, customer services, government services and manufacturing.

Orillia is located on the bank of 2 connected lakes: Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe. Both of the lakes are part of Trent-Severn Waterway.

Amazing Facts About Orillia Ontario Canada

1. Fur Trading industry was the very first local industry in Orillia.

2. Development in Orillia was done after farming and logging industry.

3. In Orillia, tourism was a very established industry by 1867.

4. “Electric Telegraph” was only in Orillia by 1868.

5. In 1887, Bell Telephone came in Orillia, but it was in the use in Midland, Penetang and Barrie before that period.

6. Orillia was the very first municipality in the North America to introduce saving time during daylight.

7. First Municipal Hydro Transmission Plant was introduced in North America was only in Orillia.

8. In 1911, first public library was established in Orillia. It is one of the Amazing Facts About Orillia Ontario Canada.

9. Opera House in Orillia completed in 1895, it was then burned down in 191 and then again rebuilt and reopened in 1917.

10. Basements of Opera House in Orillia used to have jail cells.

11. Boris Karloff, a famous personality performed once at Orillia Opera House.

12. Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II visited Couchiching Beach Park in Orillia in July 1959.

13.Bob Hope visited Orilia to make in September 1957 to make an official switch from 5K watts to 10K watts at CFOR Radio Station.

14. “Ida Burton” got scuttled and sunk along shoreline of Orillia in 1876.

15.Orillia was at #7 in list of Top Ontario Investment Towns.

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