Patricia Burroughs, Broker Royal LePage ProAlliance Realty, Brokerage Phone: 613-966-6060 Toll Free: 866-391-8272 Web Site 2 hours east of Toronto, lots of golfing, fishing, hockey, boating and affordable housing.

Dave Rowlandson Re/Max Quinte Ltd Phone: 613-969-9907 Belleville Real Estate My web site has a tremendous amount of free information for the asking. I pride myself in offering my clients added value.. be sure to look at my selling guarantee... NO RISK REAL ESTATE

John Fishbein
Re/Max Twin City Realty, Inc.
Phone: 877-450-0200
E-mail: john@kwhome.com
Web Site
Cambridge's Premier Site to search for all MLS Listings, VIRTUAL TOURS!, BUYING TIPS, with a proven dedicated professional!

Brenda MacDonald-Rowe
Royal LePage Explorer Real Estate
Phone: 613-913-9915

Helping you get to know Carleton Place, West Ottawa, Almonte, Smiths Falls.

GlobeCorp Realty, Brokerage
Phone: 519-672-0333

Dorchester Real Estate
Full service real estate brokerage serving buyers and sellers in London Ontario and surrounding areas.

Curtis Hay
Century 21 First Canadian Corp. 2
Phone: 519-762-0655
E-mail: planright@execulink.com
Web Site
Small town and country properties along 401 highway corridor SW. of London between the Thames River and Lake Erie Shoreline.

Tom Sachdeva
Re/Max Dynasty Realty Inc, Brokerage
Phone: 647-299-4529

East York Real Estate
A great web resource for the buyers and sellers of residential real estate in Toronto and GTA.

Agnes Gabiga
Re/Max Professionals Inc.
Phone: 905-270-8840

Ontario Condos and Homes for Sale
Agnes Gabiga a Mississauga Ontario ReMax Real Estate Agent professionally helps you buying or selling your home Flamborough Hamilton Ontario.

Duncan Pollock Real Estate Broker
Phone: 905-468-3154

Web Site
Acts as exclusive buyer broker. Serves all areas of Niagara Peninsula.

Hugh McLaughlin
McLaughlin Manitoulin Inc., Real Estate Brokerage
Phone: 705-282-3196

Web Site
McLaughlin Manitoulin Inc., Real Estate Brokerage, represents all types of Manitoulin Island properties. The main office is located in Gore Bay with a branch office in Little Current. McLaughlin Manitoulin Inc. is a member of the Sudbury Real Estate Board and the Multiple Listing Service.

Duncan Carmichael
Duncan Carmichael Real Estate Broker
Toll Free 888-954-2323

The Cottage Property Specialists at Lake of the Woods Ontario. Year Round Sales of Cottages, Islands and Lakefront Condo's!

John Hannaford
Digital Realty Ltd.
Phone: 705-786-3659
E-mail: sales@digitalrealty.ca
Serving the Greater Toronto area incorporating the latest in technology combined with excellence in service and experience.

J. James Bousquet
J. James Bousquet Realty Inc.
Phone: 705-368-2271
E-mail: info@manitoulinproperty.com
Web Site
We specialize in Manitoulin Island waterfront homes, cottages, lots, large tracts of land, acreage, residential and commercial property for over 35 years in the area.

Andre Seleznev
Right At Home Realty
Phone: 416-391-3232

Maple Real Estate
Find detailed information about selling or buying a property, find various promotions and deals, search current Maple & GTA listings and browse real estate forum.

Tom Sachdeva
Re/Max Dynasty Realty Inc, Brokerage
Phone: 647-299-4529

Markham Real Estate
A great web resource for the buyers and sellers of residential real estate in Toronto and GTA.

Duncan Pollock Real Estate Broker
Phone: 905-468-3154

Web Site
Acts as exclusive buyer broker. Serves all areas of Niagara Peninsula.

Armand R Marleau
Marleau Real Estate Ltd.
Phone: 705-753-3466

25 years Realtor, serving Sudbury to North Bay including south & north shore of Lake Nipissing & other.

Leo Hintze Re/Max Parry Sound - Muskoka Realty Ltd. Phone: 705-746-9336 Web Site Parry Sound Area - Including Parry Sound, Mactier, Georgian Bay(Freeman), Seguin, McDougall, McKellar, Whitestone, Magnetawan, Carling, Archipelago.

David Hawken, Broker Coldwell Banker SWE Heritage Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage Phone: 705-746-7700 Parry Sound Real Estate Serving the district of Parry Sound for homes, cottages, vacant lots and waterfront properties.

Tom Sachdeva
Re/Max Dynasty Realty Inc, Brokerage
Phone: 647-299-4529

Richmond Hill Real Estate
A great web resource for the buyers and sellers of residential real estate in Toronto and GTA.

Tom Sachdeva
Re/Max Dynasty Realty Inc, Brokerage
Phone: 647-299-4529

Vaughan Real Estate
A great web resource for the buyers and sellers of residential real estate in Toronto and GTA.

Ontario is Canada’s richest province. It leads the nation in manufacturing, producing more than half of Canada’s manufactured goods and four-fifths of the country’s exports. The economy, however, is both balanced and diversified, with agriculture, forestry, and mining making important contributions. Knowledge-intensive industries are among the fastest-growing in the economy and the financial and service sectors are robust.

Ontario is a major producer of corn, lamb, fruit, soybeans, nursery plants and flowers, poultry, eggs, and vegetables. Production of beef cattle, hogs, winter wheat, and general dairy products (especially cheese) are also significant.

Tobacco is grown commercially from near Windsor to Cobourg on Lake Ontario but is most concentrated in the sandy soils north of Lake Erie, in the Saint Thomas–Tillsonburg-Simcoe area. Most of the Canadian domestic tobacco crop is produced there.

About one-half of Ontario’s forest stock is in softwoods that grow in the north, about one-third is mixed forest, and the rest is hardwoods from the south. Spruce, pine, and fir are the leading commercial softwoods. Poplar, birch, and maple are the main commercial hardwoods. Traditionally, the lumber industry was centered in the upper Ottawa Valley, but now sawmills stretch along the southern margin of the Canadian Shield and near the Minnesota border. Wood pulp is the main forestry product, with pulp and paper mills found near power sites all across the shield. There are pulp mills along the northern shore of Lake Superior at Marathon, Terrace Bay, and Nipigon, and another one at Smooth Rock Falls, in eastern Ontario. Paper is made in several areas near the western end of Lake Superior. In western Ontario there are also mills at Fort Frances, Dryden, and Kenora; Kapuskasing and Iroquois Falls are producers in the eastern part of the forest zone.

Ontario ranks first in Canada for mining, and almost 50,000 Ontarians are employed in the mining industry. Metals mined in the ore-rich Canadian Shield include gold, nickel, copper, zinc, and cobalt. Silver and platinum are also important.

The mining districts of the Canadian Shield were discovered when work crews penetrated the region while building the transcontinental railway. The large copper deposits of the Sudbury region were first discovered in 1883, and several years later the copper ores were found to contain nickel as well. Sudbury is now one of the world’s most important producers of nickel, and the region also mines gold, silver, cobalt, and platinum.

Ontario’s chief economic activity, by a wide margin, is manufacturing. Ontario typically accounts for over one-half of Canada’s national manufacturing output. The manufacturing sector contributed 24 percent of Ontario’s GDP in 1997, and 19 percent of Ontario’s labor force (or over one million people) were employed in some aspect of manufacturing in 2000.

Many factors have contributed to Ontario’s industrial development. The Great Lakes waterway made it convenient to combine iron ore from the Lake Superior region with coal from Pennsylvania in order to produce iron and steel in Ontario. There were excellent natural resources, including minerals, forests, and streams for waterpower. A relatively large population and a skilled labor force also played a part. Proximity to centers of population in the United States provided a convenient export market. However, in the 20th century it was foreign investment in Ontario, particularly by American sources, and the establishment of branch factories, again largely by U.S. businesses, that increased Ontario’s industrial output. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which removed tariffs on imports and exports in Mexico, Canada, and the United States beginning in 1994, also benefited the province’s economy.

Most of Ontario’s manufacturing is concentrated within or near the so-called Golden Horseshoe, which extends around the western end of Lake Ontario from Oshawa through Toronto and Hamilton to the Niagara River. Toronto and its sprawling suburbs form the principal industrial center, and account for almost half of Ontario’s manufacturing establishments. Industries in the Toronto area include food processing and manufacturing machine tools, rubber goods, motor vehicle parts, heavy electrical machinery, agricultural implements, soaps and washing compounds, telecommunications and computer equipment, metal products, furniture, and fixtures.

The chief industry of Ontario is the manufacture of motor vehicles, other transportation equipment, and parts for these machines. Manufacturing is centered at Windsor, Saint Thomas, St. Catharines, Alliston, Oakville, and near Ingersoll, although many component plants exist in the Toronto-Hamilton area. The industry has expanded greatly since the creation of the Canada-United States Automotive Products Agreement (Autopact) of 1965, which removed Canadian import tariffs on cars as long as automakers produced as many cars in Canada as they sold in Canada.

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