Ontario


Area, 260,862 square miles. Formerly Upper Canada. As a

separate province, its existence dates from 1791. The population at that

time was insignificant. Simcoe became the first governor, and the first

Legislature met at Newark (Niagara) in 1792. The province was reunited

to Lower Canada in 1841; and in 1867 became a member of the new

Confederation, under its present name. The greater part of the province

was explored by Champlain, Etienne Brule, and Brebeuf, Chaumonot, and

other Jesuit missionaries, in the first half of the seventeenth century.



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