Ontario on the citizenship test
The citizenship test is the same everywhere in Canada. What changes is what you are expected to know about your province. Here is everything Discover Canada says about Ontario.
- Capital
- Toronto
From “Who We Are”
- Most Francophones live in Quebec, but one million live in Ontario, New Brunswick and Manitoba.
- Chinese languages are the second most-spoken at home after English in two of Canada's biggest cities: 13% in Vancouver and 7% in Toronto.
From “Canada's History”
- The Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the Province of Quebec into Upper Canada (later Ontario) — mainly Loyalist, Protestant and English-speaking — and Lower Canada (later Quebec), heavily Catholic and French-speaking.
- In 1793, Upper Canada, led by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, became the first province in the Empire to move toward abolition.
- Simcoe was Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor and founder of the City of York (now Toronto).
- In 1813 the Americans burned York (now Toronto); in retaliation in 1814 Major-General Robert Ross led an expedition that burned the White House in Washington.
- Armed rebellions occurred in 1837-38 outside Montreal and in Toronto; the rebels did not have enough public support and were defeated.
- 1867 — Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick.
From “Modern Canada”
- Sir Frederick Banting of Toronto and Charles Best discovered insulin, a hormone to treat diabetes that has saved 16 million lives worldwide.
From “The Justice System”
- There are provincial police forces in Ontario and Quebec and municipal police departments in all provinces.
- The RCMP enforce federal laws throughout Canada and serve as the provincial police in all provinces and territories except Ontario and Quebec, as well as in some municipalities.
From “Canadian Symbols”
- The beaver can be seen on the five-cent coin, on the coats of arms of Saskatchewan and Alberta, and of cities such as Montreal and Toronto.
- Alexander Roberts Dunn, born in present-day Toronto, was the first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross, for the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (1854).
- Flying ace Billy Bishop, born in Owen Sound, Ontario, earned the V.C. in the Royal Flying Corps and was later an honorary Air Marshal of the RCAF.
From “Canada's Regions”
- Quebec — Québec City. Ontario — Toronto.
- More than half the people in Canada live near the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River in southern Quebec and Ontario — the industrial and manufacturing heartland.
- Together, Ontario and Quebec produce more than three-quarters of all Canadian manufactured goods.
- The people of Ontario make up more than one-third of Canadians. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the country's main financial centre.
- The Niagara region is known for its vineyards, wines and fruit crops. Ontario was founded by United Empire Loyalists and has the largest French-speaking population outside Quebec.
- The five Great Lakes are Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan (in the U.S.A.) and Lake Superior, the largest fresh water lake in the world.
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