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Springvale, Ontario
Springvale is a community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada. It is located approximately 6 km west of Hagersville, near the lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation ( oj, Mazina'iga-ziibing Misi-zaagiwininiwag, ''meaning: "Mississauga people at the Credit River"'') is a Mississauga Ojibwa First Nation located near Brantford in south-central Ontario, Canada. In April 2 .... Communities in Haldimand County {{Ontario-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Communities In Ontario
{{short description, None There are various lists of communities in Ontario, grouped by status, type or location: * List of census subdivisions in Ontario - counties, districts and regional municipalities *List of cities in Ontario - places which are incorporated as cities *List of francophone communities in Ontario - places which are designated as French language service areas due to having a significant minority or majority Franco-Ontariao population *List of municipalities in Ontario - all incorporated municipalities in the province regardless of type *List of population centres in Ontario - urban areas, without regard to municipal boundaries *List of towns in Ontario - places which are incorporated as towns *List of township municipalities in Ontario - places with the municipal status of township *List of unincorporated communities in Ontario - places which are not incorporated, but exist as neighbourhoods or settlements inside larger municipal entities *List of villages in Onta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haldimand County
Haldimand County is a rural city-status single-tier municipality on the Niagara Peninsula in Southern Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Erie, and on the Grand River. Despite its name, it is no longer a county by definition, as all municipal services are handled by a single level of government. Municipal offices are located in Cayuga. The county is adjacent to Norfolk County, the County of Brant, the City of Hamilton, and the Regional Municipality of Niagara. History Haldimand's history has been closely associated with that of neighbouring Norfolk County. Upper Canada was created in 1791 by being separated from the old Province of Quebec, Haldimand was created in 1798 as part of the Niagara District. It was named after Sir Frederick Haldimand, the governor of the Province of Quebec from 1778 to 1785. In 1844, the land was surrendered by the Six Nations to the Crown in an agreement that was signed by the vast majority of Chiefs in the Haldimand tract. From 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilometre
The kilometre ( SI symbol: km; or ), spelt kilometer in American English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for ). It is now the measurement unit used for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the unit used. The abbreviations k or K (pronounced ) are commonly used to represent kilometre, but are not recommended by the BIPM. A slang term for the kilometre in the US, UK, and Canadian militaries is ''klick''. Pronunciation There are two common pronunciations for the word. # # The first pronunciation follows a pattern in English whereby metric units are pronounced with the stress on the first syllable (as in kilogram, kilojoule and kilohertz) and the pronunciation of the actual base unit does not change irrespective of the prefix (as in centimetre, millimetre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagersville, Ontario
Hagersville is a community in Haldimand County, Ontario in Canada. Location and airports *Hagersville is approximately southwest of Hamilton, Ontario, southwest of Caledonia, Ontario, and northeast of Port Dover, Ontario. *Hagersville's nearest airports are Hamilton/John C. Munro International Airport (CYHM) () (formerly Mount Hope Airport), Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) (), and Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) (). Demographics and area Hagersville is a population centre with a land area of . Hagersville's 2016 population was 2,815, a 14% growth from the 2011 population of 2,579. Of the total population, 87.5% are European, 9% are First Nation and 3.5% are visible minorities (mostly Filipino, South Asian and Latin American). Hagersville is adjacent to Mississaugas of the Credit and Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation reserves. Notable people * Hagersville was the birthplace of Neil Peart (1952–2020), drummer of the Canadian rock group Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississaugas Of The Credit First Nation
Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation ( oj, Mazina'iga-ziibing Misi-zaagiwininiwag, ''meaning: "Mississauga people at the Credit River"'') is a Mississauga Ojibwa First Nation located near Brantford in south-central Ontario, Canada. In April 2015, MCFN had an enrolled population of 2,330 people, 850 of whom lived on the MCFN Reserve. The first nation governs the 2,392.6-hectare parcel of New Credit 40A Indian Reserve known as Reserve 40B near Hagersville, Ontario. This reserve is located beside the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Brantford. In the 19th century, under pressure from the rapid growth of the European-origin population, the Mississaugas wanted to move from their reserve in the present-day City of Mississauga. Unable to make an agreement with the provincial government of the time, the Mississaugas in 1848 accepted an offer from the Six Nations Confederacy of of land inside their own property, as a compensation to the Mississaugas for their authorization for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
