Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and quasi-administrative region of the Canadian province of Ontario,the other primary region being Southern Ontario. Most of the core geographic region is located on part of the Superior Geological Province of the Canadian Shield,a vast rocky plateau located mainly north of Lake Huron,the French River,Lake Nipissing,and the Mattawa River. The statistical region extends south of the Mattawa River to include all of the District of Nipissing. The southern section of this district lies on part of the Grenville Geological Province of the Shield which occupies the transitional area between Northern and Southern Ontario. The extended federal and provincial quasi-administrative regions of Northern Ontario have their own boundaries even further south in the transitional area that vary according to their respective government policies and requirements. Ontario government departments and agencies such as the Growth Plan for Northern Ontario and the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation define Northern Ontario as all areas north of,and including,the districts of Parry Sound and Nipissing for political purposes,and the federal but not the provincial government also includes the district of Muskoka.
The United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) was an agrarian and populist provincial political party in Ontario,Canada. It was the Ontario provincial branch of the United Farmers movement of the early part of the 20th century.
Ernest Charles Drury was a farmer,politician and writer who served as the eighth premier of Ontario,from 1919 to 1923 as the head of a United Farmers of Ontario–Labour coalition government.
George Howard Ferguson was the ninth premier of Ontario,from 1923 to 1930. He was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1905 to 1930 who represented the eastern provincial riding of Grenville.
Sir George William Ross was an educator and politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. He was the fifth premier of Ontario from 1899 to 1905.
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario,the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people,with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century. Before the arrival of Europeans,the region was inhabited both by Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes.
Hearst is a town in the district of Cochrane,Ontario,Canada. It is located on the Mattawishkwia River in Northern Ontario,approximately 92 kilometres (57 mi) west of Kapuskasing,approximately 520 kilometres (320 mi) east of Thunder Bay along Highway 11. At Hearst,Highway 583 extends northward to Lac-Sainte-Thérèse and southward to Jogues,Coppell and Mead.
The 1914 Ontario general election was the 14th general election held in the Province of Ontario,Canada. It was held on June 29,1914,to elect the 111 Members of the 14th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (MLAs).
The 1919 Ontario general election,held on October 20,1919,elected 111 Members of the 15th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ("MLAs"). The United Farmers of Ontario captured the most seats but only a minority of the legislature. They joined with 11 Labour MPPs and three others to form a coalition government,ending the 14-year rule of Ontario's Conservatives. This is one of the few examples of coalition government in Canadian history.
William Edgar Raney was a lawyer,politician and judge in Ontario,Canada,in the early twentieth century. He was known for his opposition to gambling on horse racing and the sale of alcohol.
The Ontario Temperance Act was a law passed in 1916 that led to the prohibition of alcohol in Ontario,Canada. When the Act was first enacted,the sale of alcohol was prohibited,but liquor could still be manufactured in the province or imported. Strong support for prohibition came from religious elements of society such as the Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Union,which sought to eliminate what it considered the societal ills and vices associated with liquor consumption,including violent behaviour and familial abuse. Historically,prohibition advocates in Ontario drew inspiration from the temperance movements in Britain and the United States. The Act was repealed in 1927.
Arthur Allison Wishart,was a politician and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1971. He was a Progressive Conservative member who served in the cabinets of John Robarts and Bill Davis.
William Folger Nickle KC was a Canadian politician who served both as a member of the House of Commons of Canada and in the Ontario legislature where he rose to the position of Attorney-General of Ontario. He is best known for the Nickle Resolution that ended the practice of knighthoods and peerages being awarded to Canadians.
Russell Harold Ramsay was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1978 to 1985,and was a cabinet minister in the government of William Davis. Ramsay was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
Prohibition in Canada was a ban on alcoholic beverages that arose in various stages,from local municipal bans in the late 19th century,to provincial bans in the early 20th century,and national prohibition from 1918 to 1920. The relatively large and powerful beer and alcohol manufacturing sector,and the huge working class that purchased their products,failed to convince any of the governments to reverse their stance on prohibition. Most provinces repealed their bans in the 1920s,though alcohol was illegal in Prince Edward Island from 1901 to 1948. By comparison,the Ontario Temperance Act was in effect from 1916 to 1927.
William John Hanna,was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario,Canada. He represented Lambton West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1902 to 1919 as a Conservative member.
A referendum was held on October 23,1924 on the repeal of the Ontario Temperance Act. The referendum was brought about by a clause in the Act,which permitted the possible repeal of prohibition by a majority vote. The referendum upheld prohibition,albeit by the narrowest majority of all of Ontario's prohibition referendums;in 1927,prohibition would be repealed with the passing of the Liquor Licence Act.
Karl Kenneth Homuth was a Canadian manufacturer and political figure in Ontario.
The 1915 Alberta liquor plebiscite was the first plebiscite to ask voters in Alberta whether the province should implement prohibition by ratifying the proposed Liquor Act. The plebiscite was the culmination of years of lobbying by the province's temperance movements and agricultural groups,and was proposed through the recently implemented form of direct democracy,the Direct Legislation Act. Alberta voters approved the plebiscite on prohibition,which was implemented eleven months after the vote. The June 21,1915 plebiscite was the first of three province-wide plebiscites held in a seven-year period related to liquor in Alberta.
Sault Ste. Marie is a city in Ontario,Canada. The third-largest city in Northern Ontario after Sudbury and Thunder Bay,it is located on the St. Mary's River on the Canada–US border. To the southwest,across the river,is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. The two cities are joined by the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge,which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side to Huron Street on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks,the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it,while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
