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Ontario

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Named for Ontario, Canada; fruit-processing center & shipment point after arrival of Santa Fe Railroad in 1887; industries include electrical appliances, aircraft parts & steel; site of Ontario Motor Speedway (1970) & Ontario International Airport.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994);

Born

Patricia K. Nicholson (American, 1894-1978)

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