Archive: Ontario Cool Facts

Hardy Boys book ghost-written by Leslie Mcfarlane

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Leslie McFarlane, author of many ‘Hardy Boys’ novels was raised here in Haileybury / Temiskaming Shores

Author: Rabensteiner / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons

Where would we be without the zipper? Thanks to a St. Catharines company people were able to move past bruising their fingers with buttons

St. Catharines Tourism

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Mammoth ships are lifted 99.36 metres using simple gravity at the Welland Canal

Malcolm Gladwell / Elmira, Ontario

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Malcolm Gladwell, author of the phenomenally popular ‘The Tipping Point’ , ‘Blink’ and ‘Outliers’ grew up in the sleepy southwestern Ontario town of Elmira

Bell Equipment © Lucy Izon

The world’s first long distance phone call was made from the Bell Homestead near Brantford

Photo courtesy Niagara Falls Tourism

In 1848 Niagara Falls was so cool it actually stopped flowing

Photo: Tourism Sarnia Lambton and the Lambton Heritage Museum

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North America’s first commercial oil well was located in Oil Springs, Lambton County

Uncle Tom's Cabin Dresden © Lucy Izon

Rev Josiah Henson of Dresden Ontario was the inspiration for Uncle Tom, for the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Rideau Canal Skateway © Lucy Izon

Guinness World Records has confirmed it! Ottawa offers the Largest Skating Rink in the World

Norad Entrance © Lucy Izon

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More than 60 stories beneath North Bay is a NORAD complex the size of two football fields that could sustain 400 people for 4 weeks when completely sealed

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