Archive: Ontario Cool Facts

Chicago production photo courtesy of Distillery District

Chicago, X-Men, Blues Brothers 2000, Cinderella Man are among the many major feature films that have used Toronto’s Distillery District as a location

Sir Frederick Banting

Banting House - Where Frederick Banting woke up with the idea for insulin

National Geographic once said that Grand Bend has one of the 10 most beautiful sunsets in the world

Punkeydoodles Corners

Punkeydoodles Corners - A wonderful name!

Shania Twain

Shania Twain returned to Timmins to carry Olympic Torch in her home town - it was -25 C !

Old Fort William courtesy Thunder Bay Tourism

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Thunder Bay’s Fort William, the world’s largest fur trading post, was laid out in the design of the Union Jack Flag

Hudson's Bay

The Hudson’s Bay Company once owned 10 per cent of the earth’s surface

Brantford Pow Wow

You can experience one of North America’s largest Pow Wow’s near Brantford. Actor Graham Greene was born here.

Click to see Making of Ice Truck Video

Hensall Iceculture: this small-town Canadian business created a truck out of 11,000 lbs of ice! Infact, they have even been known to sell ice to Iceland - now that’s cool!

Sudbury Neutrino Observatory © Lucy Izon

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Sudbury’s 2km deep Neutrino Observatory is so cool world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking came to visit in 1998