- Ontario is an Iroquois word meaning "beautiful lake" or "beautiful water".

- Canada's Capital, Ottawa, is in Ontario.


Ontario's Coat of Arms

Name	Surface Area	Population	Located in	Premier	Flag (image)
Ontario	917,741 km² of land and 158,654 km² of water	12,439,755 (2004)	Canada	Dalton McGinty

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario has 103 seats. The current standings are as follows:

Liberal Party of Ontario: 71
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario: 24
New Democratic Party of Ontario: 8

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario, is the legislature of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located in the Legislative Buildings (see image) at Queen's Park in Toronto.

The British North America Act 1867 section 69 stipulated "There shall be a Legislature for Ontario consisting of the Lieutenant Governor and of One House, styled the Legislative Assembly of Ontario". The Legislative Assembly is unicameral, without an upper house, with 103 seats representing ridings elected in a first-past-the-post system across the province.

The assembly is also known (informally) as the Ontario Provincial Parliament, the reason being that unlike most of the other Canadian provinces, members of this assembly have taken to calling themselves Members of the Provincial Parliament (MPPs) as opposed to Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs). The Legislative Assembly Act (R.S.O. 1990) refers to "members of the Assembly".

1. Some information such as size of Ontario and pictures found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario
2. Information on the Legislative Assembly of Ontario found at www.wikipedia.org