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"An Example of Native Dress" image courtesy of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Recreation.In the 2001 national census taken by Statistics Canada, about 190,000 of Ontario's people identified themselves as Aboriginal (North American Indian, Métis or Inuit). That's about one per cent of the province's population and about one-fifth of Canada's Aboriginal population. They include Algonquian-speaking Cree, Oji-Cree, Algonquin, Ojibwa, Odawa, Potawatomi, and Delaware, plus the Iroquoian-speaking Six Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora).

 

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Did you know?

  • Sir Fredrick Banting, who won a Nobel prize for the discovery of insulin, was born in Alliston, Ontario.

  • Heart valves were transplanted for the first time worldwide in Toronto in 1956.

  • The world’s first successful double lung transplant occurred in Toronto in 1986.

  • Ontario is one of the most multicultural societies on earth. Half of all immigrants to Canada settle in Ontario; of those, half live outside Toronto.

 
 
 
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