Unbelievable and amazing facts about Ontario Canada

Ontario’s multiculturalism and varied landscapes make Ontario a great place to live and visit. Find out some more about Ontario’s places and people and many more. These amazing facts about Ontario make Ontario Canada a very famous tourist destination in Canada.

Ontario is a study in the contrasts, its varied landscapes include mineral rich, vast and rocky Canadian Shield, which separates fertile farmland in south and grassy lowlands of north.

Ontario is having more than 250,000 lakes which contain around one-fifth of world’s fresh water. During summer, temperature soars above 30°C, whereas during winters temperature drops below -40°C.

Industry range in Ontario varies from leading-edge technology, to manufacturing automobiles, to designing software, to mining minerals and cultivating crops.

Cultures from around the world are being celebrated in Ontario with festivals like the Canadian Aboriginal Festival, Oktoberfest and Caribbean Carnival. Travelers from around the world enjoy many experiences that Ontario offer.

Economy
Economy of Ontario Canada thrives through unique combinations of exports, manufacturing and resources and a drive for the innovation.

Ontario generates around 37% of national GDP and is home to around 50% of employees in financial services, high tech and other intensive industries.

Manufacturing
Ontario is a part of North American which manufacture heartland. Ontario’s example in key manufacturing industries include medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotech, communications technologies and autos.

Below are some of the key facts about manufacturing sector of Ontario:
– Ontario is largest sub national automotive jurisdiction in North America.
– According to the Canadian Statistics, around 88% of vehicle production of Ontario was exported in 2011, with all of the exports for United States
– In 2011, manufacturing businesses of Ontario were shipped more than around $258 billion after Texas and California, Ontario has most manufacturing employees of jurisdiction in United States and Canada.

Agriculture
Ontario is having around more than half of highest quality of farmland in Canada. There are around 51,950 farms in Ontario and this produce one-quarter of farms revenue in Canada.

Agricultural production in Ontario includes:
– Vegetables
– Berries, grapes, apples, fruit crops and other tender fruits
– Wheat and barley, forage crops, mixed grains, corn, soybeans and cash crops
– Beef cattle farms, dairy, hog and commercial poultry
– Flowers

Forestry
Forests in Ontario Canada plays a major role in province’s economy. This contribute to a leading and good standard of living by providing direct more than 53,000 jobs in forest industry among which 200,000 are direct jobs and 260 indirect jobs across the Ontario community.

Protected areas and Provincial parks
Algonquin Provincial Park was established in 1893,it was first provincial park in Ontario. Since then, provincial parks in Ontario have stood for the protection of natural environment and great outdoors.

Now today, vast system of parks in Ontario and protected areas which is around 9 millions of hectares, which includes areas of animals and plants, wetlands, wilderness rivers, woodland caribou ranges and magnificent old-growth forest.

Parks in Ontario attract around 10 million of visitors every year and provides places for the outdoor activities like fishing, nature viewing, canoeing, swimming, hiking and camping.

Parks in Ontario are important for outdoor education, environmental monitoring and scientific research.

People and culture
Ontario is having population more than 13.5 million, Ontario is home about to 2 in 5 Canadians. More than 85% of population live in urban centres which is in cities on shores of Great Lakes.

Largest concentration of cities and people is in “Golden Horseshoe” along western shore of the Lake Ontario which includes Niagara Falls and the Greater Toronto Area, Hamilton.

The Golden Horseshoe describes extended metropolitan area which includes many parts of central Ontario. More than 9 million of people, this area is fastest growing areas in North America.

Wider region spreads in all the directions away from Lake Ontario, northeast to Peterborough, north to Barrie, west to Kitchener-Waterloo area, southwest to Brantford.

Population hub in southwestern area of Ontario includes London, Sarnia, Windsor and Kincardine.

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