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The majority of sites will not be accepted in this category. Most
sites should be submitted to an
Ontario locality. Alternately, some sites may qualify for placement
in Ontario
Regions, or in Ontario
Counties and Districts. Please read the category descriptions to determine
if your site qualifies elsewhere.
Sites which may be listed at the provincial level include:
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Ontario is Canada's second largest province, covering more than one million square kilometers (415,000 square miles). It is bordered by Québec on the east, Manitoba on the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay on the north, and the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes on the south.Ontario's population is more than 11 million (Statistics Canada, 2001), which makes it home to approximately one in three Canadians. Eighty per cent of the people live in urban centres, mainly in cities on the shores of the Great Lakes.
The capital of the province is Toronto. Ontario is also home to Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
Ontario’s most northern communities are close to the same latitude as London, England and Warsaw, Poland. Ontario’s southernmost point of land is Middle Island, in Lake Erie south of Point Pelee, roughly parallel to Barcelona, Spain or Rome, Italy.
There are over 250,000 lakes in Ontario - they make up about one-third of the world’s fresh water.
Ontario's industries range from cultivating crops, to mining minerals, to manufacturing automobiles, to designing software and leading-edge technology.
According to the 1996 census by Statistics Canada, the five languages most commonly spoken at home are English (almost nine million speakers), French (almost 540,000 speakers), Chinese (almost 275,000 speakers), Italian (almost 140,000 speakers) and Portuguese (about 92,000 speakers). Other significant languages include Polish, Spanish, Punjabi, German and Greek.
According to the same census, about 140,000 of Ontario’s people identified themselves as Aboriginal (North American Indian, Métis or Inuit). This represents about one per cent of the province’s population and about one-fifth of Canada's total Aboriginal population. They include Algonquian-speaking Cree, Oji-Cree, Algonquin, Ojibwa, Odawa, Potawatomi, and Delaware, and Iroquoian-speaking Six Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora).
(Some information taken from the Government of Ontario website.)
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Thanks for submitting your site. To be listed in this category, your site must deal with architecture provincially or offer a provincial resource or organization. Architects and their businesses are listed separately under Business and Economy in the locality. where their business office is physically located. |
Includes sites for artistic, cultural, and entertainment activities, events, institutions and organizations, having a broad provincial focus.
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Unless your business has multiple Ontario locations (see the accompanying description), do not submit your site here.
Failure to abide by this guideline will result, at the very least, in your listing being delayed, or possibly even in your submission being deleted. |
This category is for websites that conduct business in the entire province.They include Ontario businesses having offices or places of business in two or more Ontario Regions. Also included are sites for business entities which have a clear provincial focus. Most commonly, these will be directories, provincewide business organizations and business search engines.
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If your site is oriented to a particular locality, please submit it in the correct city in the Ontario Localities category. Only sites that are relevant to an entire county should be submitted in one of the counties here. Sites acceptable for inclusion in Counties and Districts include these:
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Ontario counties have had varied histories. A number of counties, such as Ontario County and Toronto County, have long ago disappeared as the province grew. Through past redistribution schemes some were amalgamated while others gave up territory which became distinctly separate counties. For example, Wellington County gave rise to parts of Dufferin. That happened over one hundred years ago, but even today, Dufferin and Wellington share many services. Such redistribution and amalgamation still goes on even todayAlong with county sub-divisions, the province also has administrative districts, hence the name of this category is Counties and Districts. Parry Sound District is an example of a district. .
At the time of this writing, Ontario had 39 remaining county or district sub-divisions. Through more recent reorganization and in a few instances of amalgamation, a number of Ontario counties became the parents of newer administrative areas known as Regional Municipalities. For example, The Regional Municipality of York has its roots in York County, while The Regional Municipality of Waterloo is the end product of Waterloo County. In a few cases, counties were combined or united as in the case of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Counties are considered a single united administrative district.
The names of such recently altered counties remain in this category for historical reference. The changes are recent occurrences, and many people still think in terms of the original county, rather than the newer locality, or maybe even of both. Still they are linked directly to the newer locality.
The following list includes counties which no longer exist in their original form, but instead in a Regional Municipality, or other context. They are the Counties of Dundas, Durhham, Glengarry, Haldimand, Halton, Kent, Lincoln, Peel, Victoria, Waterloo, Welland, Wentworth and York.
Ontario Government, agencies and Crown corporations belonging to the Government of Ontario or covering more than one Regional Municipality or County.For political and activist sites, check Ontario: Politics.
Includes general interest online guides and directories specific to the entire province of Ontario, or at least wide areas of the province, and encompassing more than one Region. Those that are specific to a particular topic should instead be placed within the appropriate topic subcategory the region.
| Administrative bodies and organizations dealing with health care interests and issues. Clinics and doctor's offices should be listed under Regional: North America: Canada: Ontario: Health: Treatment |
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Individual sites belonging to a locality should not be submitted to this catgory. Find the correct letter for the locality and submit in that category. |
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The placement of this category within Ontario is in compliance with that used throughout the rest of Canada. No web sites will be accepted in this category. Please don't submit them. |
Ontario has nine Metropolitan Areas (Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Ottawa-Gatineau, St. Catherines-Niagara, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Toronto and Windsor) as defined by Statistics Canada description of Census Metropolitan Areas, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Ottawa-Gatineau, St. Catherines-Niagara, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Toronto and Windsor at StatsCan Name Search , which provides useful statistical data and a zoomable map.
This section is dedicated to amateur sports in Ontario. You will find information on sports updates, sports scores,local sporting events, hockey, basketball, football, track and field, karate, boxing, skating, wrestling, soccer, baseball, swimming, synchronized swimming, aquatics, curling, lacrosse, University, College and High School sports, OHL, CIAU, OUA, OFSAA, WECSSA, minor hockey and junior leagues.The comprehensive list of links in this category provide you with a powerful search tool for information on amateur athletics in Ontario.
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The title should be either the company's name or, where it seems more appropriate, that of the site itself -- and no more than this. In other words, phrases like "Welcome to ..." and "Your friendly/local ..." are both superfluous and destined for deletion. In turn, the Description should be free of personal pronouns and worded the way an observer and/or reviewer of the site would describe it and its content. Thus "Our mission is to serve your needs" needs altering to something like "Company's emphasis is on customer service." In effect, the title and description should simply let people know who's at the back of it and what information it contains or conveys. |
Regions are defined in Webster's or Funk & Wagnall's as a large and 'indefinite' part of the surface of the earth.In Ontario, ODP editors have 'defined' seven regions organized by geographic area, and containing specific counties and districts. The Ontario Regions below, list the Counties and Districts which they embrace.
Please note that these seven regions should not be confused with regional municipalities, of which there are a number in Ontario. Regional municipalities are listed in the Localities sub-category.
By editor funk, revised 2000.05.11
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Please submit Ontario focused sites which deal with the science and "how to" of agriculture.
Agribusiness sites are listed in the Regional/North_America/Canada/Ontario/Business_and_Economy/Agriculture category. |
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Thanks for visiting. This category deals with issues relating to single ethnic, racial or cultural groups. Sites that will not be accepted in this category are those where the ethnicity or cultural heritage is not a central theme, such as a local newspaper dealing with general issues, whose publisher happens to be of Haitian heritage. Submission Tips: |
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| Do not include individual lodging sites. |
Sites dedicated to travel and touring in Ontario.
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