Eco-Zones & Wildlife
This official provincial bird of Ontario can be found on our lakes and on the Canadian one-dollar coin.
What is the Common Loon?
This city is the official capital of Canada, located right on the border of Ontario and Quebec.
What is Ottawa?
Most linguistic experts agree that the name "Ontario" comes from an Indigenous word meaning this.
What is "Beautiful Water" or "Beautiful Lake"?
Born in London, Ontario, this massive pop star got his start singing on YouTube with songs like "Baby" and "Sorry".
Who is Justin Bieber?
Home of the CN Tower, the Rogers Centre, and the Raptors.
What is Toronto?
This official provincial flower has three delicate white petals and is protected by law so you cannot pick it.
What is the White Trillium?
This city is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada.
What is Toronto?
This group, also known as the Anishinaabe Three Fires Confederacy, is made up of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi nations.
Who are the Algonquin (or Anishinaabek)?
This famous global rap superstar proudly reps Toronto, calling it "The 6ix".
Who is Drake?
This city is famous for its thunderous, world-famous waterfalls that sit right on the US border.
What is Niagara Falls?
Ontario contains about 250,000 lakes, which hold about this fraction of the entire world's liquid fresh water supply.
What is one-fifth (or 20%)?
This British monarch officially chose Ottawa to be the capital of Canada in 1857 because it was safely away from the US border.
Who was Queen Victoria?
These formal, legally binding agreements were made between Indigenous nations and the Canadian government to share the land we live on today.
What are Treaties?
This purple quartz, heavily mined near Thunder Bay, is Ontario’s official provincial gemstone.
What is Amethyst?
This Northern Ontario city is famous for mining and features a giant monument of a 5-cent piece called "The Big Nickel".
What is Sudbury?
This massive, rocky geographic region covers over half of Ontario and is rich in minerals, forests, and lakes.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This is the name of the building in Toronto where Ontario's Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) meet to pass laws.
Answer: What is Queen's Park?
This word, meaning "to trade" in the Algonquin language, is where Canada's capital city gets its name.
What is "Adawe" (Ottawa)?
This Ontario-born astronaut became the first Canadian to walk in space and famously played the guitar while floating in the International Space Station.
Who is Chris Hadfield?
This city shares its name with the capital of the United Kingdom and features its own Thames River.
What is London?
Located in far northern Ontario along Hudson Bay, this is the largest provincial park in Ontario, named after a large white mammal.
What is Polar Bear Provincial Park?
This is the official title of the person who serves as the head of the provincial government in Ontario.
Answer: Who is the Premier?
This massive confederacy of six nations (including the Mohawk and Oneida) traditionally lived in Southern Ontario and upper New York state.
Who are the Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois)?
Ontario is so massive that it is the only Canadian province split into two of these.
What are Time Zones? (Eastern and Central)
Located on the shores of Lake Superior, this city is Ontario's hub for mining amethyst.
What is Thunder Bay?