Tell me the history of ontario canada?

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History

First Nations

Artifacts and archaeological excavation that show human habitation of what is today Ontario date back at least 7,000 years. Many distinct native cultures and languages flourished. In the north, Algonquin, Cree and Ojibwa people fished and hunted. The first farmers in the south were the Huron, Tobacco (Petun), Neutrals (Attiwandaron), and Iroquois. The Iroquois Five Nations included the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk. The Tuscarora joined the Five Nations in 1722 and henceforth they were known as the Six Nations. The Iroquois lived mostly in northern New York State until after the American Revolution when many of them moved to Ontario as Loyalists. Distinct native cultures and languages have continued and evolve to this day.The first Europeans to visit Ontario arrived by boat. French explorers Etienne Brulé and Samuel de Champlain followed the St. Lawrence River into Lake Ontario in 1610 and 1615, respectively. Henry Hudson sailed into Ontario from the north and claimed the Hudson Bay area for Britain in 1611. Both the French and the British were keenly interested in Ontario’s commercial possibilities particularly the fur trade. Both built fortifications to protect their interests. The first settlers set up their base in the south, where the climate and land supported farming and the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence offered a natural transportation route.The French and British were rivals in the New World as well as in the Old World and fought each other in North America intermittently beginning in the early 1600's. The final war for what is now Canada fought between the French and British (the Seven Years War) began in 1754. When it ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France ceded its claims for this land to Great Britain. British settlement was bolstered by the American Revolution which began in 1775. The revolutionary war ended in 1783, but colonists there who wanted to remain loyal to Britain (United Empire Loyalists) flocked to Ontario.Until 1791, all the lands north of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes were simply known as "Quebec." In 1791, the Constitutional Act divided and renamed this vast territory. The Ontario area was called Upper Canada, and the remainder of old Quebec was called Lower Canada. The first capital of Upper Canada was Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake), near the Canada-U.S. border. The capital was moved in 1793 to York (now Toronto) which was less vulnerable to raids from the new republic to the south. Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor was General John Graves Simcoe.



At the time, there were about 15,000 people in Upper Canada. Over the next 20 years various groups arrived, including German settlers from New York State, Mennonites who settled in the Grand River Valley, and the Catholic Highlanders who settled in Glengarry County. By the time war broke out in 1812, the population had swelled to about 90,000.In 1812 the United States, angered by British harassment on the Atlantic Ocean, trade problems, and wanting to add Britain’s North American colonies to the United States, declared war on Great Britain and invaded Upper Canada. The Americans were beaten back in 1812. However, the Legislative Buildings, in Toronto, were burned by the Americans in 1813. The British retaliated in 1814 by invading Washington and burning the Capitol and the president’s house. The war ended in a stalemate and the Treaty of Ghent was signed that year.

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