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Feb. 6, 2011

Hi...

This is the first of an  infinite number of posts bringing you daily-fun-facts while blatantly bragging about Canada's “Golden Horseshoe” area in Ontario. 

Hamilton, Ontario Harbour.  Photo by Patti Zonta, July, 2011

While growing up in Hamilton, Ontario, I came to realize that an incredible number of creative and exemplary people hail from the Niagara Escarpment Region, in other words,Ontario's "Golden Horseshoe" - extending from Tobermory, Stratford, and Guelph to Niagara Falls and the Niagara Region in New York State, USA. 

Some of the following information will be common knowledge, while other tidbits, I hope, will certainly surprise you. 

In this relatively small, but fascinating, section of the world, some of the most exciting people have created some of the most amazing things and have become famous all over the world, for their efforts, diversity and ingenuity such as in music, art, acting, movie-making, medical and scientific discoveries, space travel, industry --- for instance, Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone, U2, the Canadarms 1 &2, and Butter Tarts. 

The list goes on & on &on...Like the jingle says: "Good things grow - in Ontario!" 

...next time, 

Patti Zonta