The Golden Horseshoe is a secondary region of Southern Ontario,Canada,which lies at the western end of Lake Ontario,with outer boundaries stretching south to Lake Erie and north to Lake Scugog,Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. The region is the most densely populated and industrialized in Canada. Based on the 2021 census,with a population of 7,759,635 people in its core and 9,765,188 in its greater area,the Golden Horseshoe accounts for over 20 percent of the population of Canada and more than 54 percent of Ontario's population. It is part of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor,itself part of the Great Lakes megalopolis.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,often colloquially pronounced 'shirk',is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and training in the humanities and social sciences. It is one of three major federal granting agencies that together are referred to as the "Tri-Council" or "Tri-Agency.
Georgian College is a College of Applied Arts and Technology in Ontario,Canada,partnered with ILAC International College. It has 13,000 full-time students,including 4,500 international students from 85 countries,across seven campuses,the largest being in Barrie.
The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor is the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region of Canada. As its name suggests,the 1,150 km (710 mi)-long region extends from Quebec City in the northeast and Windsor,Ontario in the southwest. With more than 18 million people,it contains about half of the country's population and three of Canada's four and seven of Canada's 12 largest metropolitan areas. Its relative importance to Canada's economic and political infrastructure renders it akin to the Northeast megalopolis in the United States. The name was first popularized by Via Rail,which runs frequent passenger rail service in the region in its service area known as "The Corridor".
Simcoe County District School Board is an Ontario,Canada,English speaking public school board,serving Simcoe County. The schools and learning centres are branched throughout 4,800 square kilometres in Simcoe County. This Central Ontario setting is bordered by the Holland Marsh in the south,the Trent-Severn Waterway in the east,Grey County in the west and Muskoka in the north.
HMCS Messines was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following the war the ship was transferred to the Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries and converted into a lightvessel. Re-designated Lightship No. 3,the vessel was sold for scrap and broken up in 1962.
Bear Creek Secondary School is a public secondary school located in Barrie,Ontario,Canada. It was founded in 2001,it is the second largest high school in Simcoe County and currently has an enrollment of more than 1500 students. The current principal is Jeremy Oxley. The school has an extremely large catchment area of mainly south &west Barrie,but also portions of Essa Township and Springwater Township.
Prince of Wales Public School,built in 1876,was the oldest elementary school in the Simcoe County District School Board. The school was located in downtown Barrie,Ontario,Canada and shared a field with neighbouring Barrie Central Collegiate Institute. It was one of two elementary schools in Barrie,Ontario to offer an Extended French program. The last principal was Jan Olson. Prince of Wales officially closed on June 30,2011.
Northlands College is a public post-secondary educational institution in northern Saskatchewan,Canada.
Maya Burhanpurkar is a Canadian researcher.
ArcticNet is a Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada. Its objective is to study the impacts of climate change and modernization in the coastal Canadian Arctic.
Claire Battershill is a Canadian fiction writer and literary scholar. On September 15,2017,Battershill was honoured by receiving a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Talent Award from Governor General David Johnston.
Julia Margaret Wright is a professor in the Department of English and University Research Professor at Dalhousie University. Wright is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Kathryn Louise Brush is a Canadian art historian. She is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Western Ontario,and was the first professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario to be named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Wendy Marion Craig is a Canadian clinical-developmental psychologist known for her research and advocacy in the field of childhood bullying. She is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen's University at Kingston in Ontario,Canada.
Barbara Neis is a Canadian social scientist. She is a John Lewis Paton Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Senior Research Associated in the SafetyNet Centre.
Joanna R. Quinn is a Canadian political scientist. She is a Professor of political science and director of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at the University of Western Ontario.
Courtney Leigh Szto is a Canadian assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University at Kingston.
Anna Victoria Hudson is an art historian,curator,writer and educator specializing in Canadian Art,Curatorial and Indigenous Studies who is the Director of the Graduate Program in Art History &Visual Culture at York University,Toronto.
