1.2.3 Notable Figures of the Toronto Public School Board By the 1960s and 1970s the increased pollution caused frequent algal blooms to occur in the summer. These blooms killed large numbers of fish and left decomposing piles of filamentous algae and dead fish along the shores at times the blooms became so thick waves could not break Fish eating birds such as osprey bald eagle and cormorant were being poisoned by contaminated fish Since the 1960s and 1970s environmental concerns have forced a cleanup of industrial and municipal wastes Cleanup has been accomplished through better treatment plants tighter environmental regulations deindustrialization and increased public awareness Today Lake Ontario has recovered some of its pristine quality; for example walleye a fish species considered as a marker of clean water are now found However regional airshed pollution remains a concern the lake has also become an important sport fishery although with introduced species (Coho and Chinook salmon) rather than the native species Bald eagle and osprey populations are also beginning to recover Invasive species are a problem for Lake Ontario particularly lamprey and zebra mussels Lamprey are being controlled by poisoning in the juvenile stage in the streams where they breed Zebra mussels in particular are difficult to control and pose major challenges for the lake and its waterways Climate. . ! ! Haoliang Xu (China) for Asia & Pacific; A large number of residents from New Brunswick are employed in the primary sector of industry More than 13,000 New Brunswickers work in agriculture shipping products worth over $1 billion half of which is from crops and half of that from potatoes mostly in the Saint John River valley McCain Foods is one of the world's largest manufacturers of frozen potato products Other products include apples cranberries and maple syrup. New Brunswick was in 2015 the biggest producer of wild blueberries in Canada the value of the livestock sector is about a quarter of a billion dollars nearly half of which is dairy Other sectors include poultry fur and goats sheep and pigs A paper mill in Saint John About 83% of New Brunswick is forested Historically important it accounted for more than 80% of exports in the mid 1800s By the end of the 1800s the industry and shipbuilding were declining due to external economic factors the 1920s saw the development of a pulp and paper industry in the mid-1960s forestry practices changed from the controlled harvests of a commodity to the cultivation of the forests the industry employs nearly 12,000 generating revenues around $437 million Mining was historically unimportant in the province but since the 1950s has grown and in 2012 was an estimated $1.1 billion Mines in New Brunswick produce lead zinc copper and potash Education; .
. There are also a number of private career colleges spread throughout the Greater Toronto Area The Province of Upper Canada (French: province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain to govern the central third of the lands in British North America formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763 Upper Canada included all of modern-day Southern Ontario and all those areas of Northern Ontario in the Pays d'en Haut which had formed part of New France essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River or Lakes Huron and Superior excluding any lands within the watershed of Hudson Bay the "upper" prefix in the name reflects its geographic position along the Great Lakes mostly above the headwaters of the Saint Lawrence River contrasted with Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) to the northeast It was the primary destination of Loyalist refugees and settlers from the United States after the American Revolution who often were granted land to settle in Upper Canada the province was characterized by its British way of life including bicameral parliament and separate civil and criminal law rather than mixed as in Lower Canada or elsewhere in the British Empire the division was created to ensure the exercise of the same rights and privileges enjoyed by loyal subjects elsewhere in the North American colonies in 1812 war broke out between Great Britain and the United States leading to several battles in Upper Canada the US had hoped to capture Upper Canada but the war ended with the situation unchanged The government of the colony came to be dominated by a small group of persons known as the "Family Compact" who held most of the top positions in the Legislative Council and appointed officials in 1837 an unsuccessful rebellion attempted to overthrow the undemocratic system Representative government would be established in the 1840s Upper Canada existed from its establishment on 26 December 1791 to 10 February 1841 when it was united with adjacent Lower Canada to form the Province of Canada Contents. A map highlighting the Canadas with Upper Canada in orange and Lower Canada in green in 1841 the two colonies were united to form the Province of Canada Although both rebellions were put down in short order the British government sent Lord Durham to investigate the causes He recommended self-government be granted and Lower and Upper Canada be re-joined in an attempt to assimilate the French Canadians Accordingly the two colonies were merged into the Province of Canada by the Act of Union 1840 with the capital at Kingston and Upper Canada becoming known as Canada West. Parliamentary self-government was granted in 1848 There were heavy waves of immigration in the 1840s and the population of Canada West more than doubled by 1851 over the previous decade As a result for the first time the English-speaking population of Canada West surpassed the French-speaking population of Canada East tilting the representative balance of power An economic boom in the 1850s coincided with railway expansion across the province further increasing the economic strength of Central Canada With the repeal of the Corn Laws and a reciprocity agreement in place with the United States various industries such as timber mining farming and alcohol distilling benefited tremendously A political stalemate between the French- and English-speaking legislators as well as fear of aggression from the United States during and immediately after the American Civil War led the political elite to hold a series of conferences in the 1860s to effect a broader federal union of all British North American colonies the British North America Act took effect on July 1 1867 establishing the Dominion of Canada initially with four provinces: Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec and Ontario the Province of Canada was divided into Ontario and Quebec so that each linguistic group would have its own province Both Quebec and Ontario were required by section 93 of the British North America Act to safeguard existing educational rights and privileges of Protestant and the Catholic minority Thus separate Catholic schools and school boards were permitted in Ontario However neither province had a constitutional requirement to protect its French- or English-speaking minority Toronto was formally established as Ontario's provincial capital Provincehood. .
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