Faces Ontario (1975)

[Music] [Music] 619 [Music] beautiful bustling Ontario province of plenty in a country blessed colorant diverse. [Music] Friendly places, friendly faces with a strong sense of the old and the constant excitement of the new. [Music] Ontario [Music] with places to go and places to grow. Room to get involved and room to get away. Never far from where water greets the land. Rivers and streams, great lakes and small. In the north, lakes unlimited, moments unhurried, creatures untamed, and some of the best fishing in the world, [Music] waterways for power, waterways for commerce. Most of all, waterways for pleasure. [Music] Rent a house boat or take a boat tour through a thousand islands in the sun near Brockville. Anchor in a quiet cove and watch the sun go down over a castle in the great St. Lawrence. [Music] Travel inland from the St. Lawrence River, 240 mi along the Trent Severn waterway to the shores of Georgian Bay and on to Lake Huron. The RTO Canal links Ottawa, the nation's capital, with Kingston. When winter comes to Ottawa, the canal is turned into Canada's longest skating rink. [Music] Finding out about static electricity at the Museum of Science and Technology. Remembering the pioneer days of inner space in a city rich in pageantry, tradition, and attractions such as the Royal Canadian Mint and the National Gallery, home of Canada's proudest collection of artworks. [Music] May is tulip time in Ottawa. The annual festival began when Juliana of the Netherlands presented Canada with bulbs from Holland in return for World War II hospitality. Visit the House of Commons and walk the halls of power amongst the echoes of history and decision. [Music] One of the most stirring sites in Canada, the 45minut summer changing of the guard on Parliament Hill. Ontario remembers. Fort Henry at Kingston was Upper Canada's mightiest stronghold when built in 1832 and remains one of its most vivid lessons in history. [Music] At Morrisburg, the life, times, and dignity of the United Empire loyalist pioneers are recreated and celebrated at unforgettable Upper Canada Village, where even the dye used to color the wool is made from flowers grown in the village gardens. [Music] [Music] International plowing matches and country fairs highlight the season in rural Ontario. Some with horses and broadbacks. Most the easier modern way. All in search of the perfect furrow. [Music] Ontario country fairs offer all the fun, smells, and sounds of home cooking and kids, midway, cattle shows, and steam. [Music] A sleek, speedy Turbo with daily passenger service between Canada's two biggest cities, Montreal and Toronto. Nerve center of business and communications and home of the CN Tower, the world's tallest freestanding structure with a view you'll never forget. [Music] Toronto, where concrete and glass can be beautiful, as modern as the day after tomorrow. With a city hall that epitomizes all that is progressive, bustling Ontario. Ontario Place, futuristic playground on the banks of Lake Ontario. Toronto's space age recreation of the atmosphere of old Venice. Sir Henry Pellet wanted his 98 room castle to be North America's largest when he built it in 1911. Castaloma was and still is [Music] rich in spaces green. Toronto has a 600 acre island park where the signs say, "Please walk on the grass." And everybody does. [Music] Happy colorful Yorkville village where the old Victorian houses have shed their reserve and gone modern in the name of youth, good times, and style. [Music] Cosmopolitan Toronto, city of new faces and new ways imported from older distant lands. At Kensington Market, the fruit and vegetables are for feeling. The pickles in barrels, the fish live and tanks, the cheesecake divine, and the shopping a social adventure. [Music] Toronto is a nice place to be after dark. Good restaurants, the best jazz in the land, and theaters big and small, classical or modern. [Applause] [Music] And if you feel like a change of scenery, dinner, and an evening of theater or music, it's just a pleasant summer drive away at the world famous Shakespearean Festival on the banks of the quiet Avon River at Stratford. [Music] They're off at Woodbine, home of North America's oldest established horse race. The annual Queen's Plate run for Canadian bred three-year-olds since 1860. The roar of Mosport. One of the finest Grand Prix tracks on the continent. Less than an hour's drive from Toronto. [Music] Hamilton, steel capital of Canada in a province that is the industrial soul of a nation. [Music] [Music] The farms of Ontario on a lazy hazy day in summer. Peaceful, prosperous, and green. [Music] London, an important financial and industrial city, home of the University of Western Ontario. and a fantasy park with an old woman who lives in a shoe for children of all ages on the banks of the river temps. [Music] The International Blossom Festival in the Niagara Fruit Belt. A fragrant and colorful annual celebration of beauty and growth. Happy days of wine and roses and the expectation of bountiful crops. [Music] Niagara Falls, pride of Ontario. Wonder of the world. Once seen, never forgotten. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to N Falls car. Now viewers on the river hang safely 120 ft above the Niagara Whirlpools as the waters rush through the gorge to the quiet welcome of Lake Ontario. Now viewers on the roll side, you are viewing world. So [Music] ride the maid of the mist to the very foot of one of the world's most wondrous natural marvels. [Music] Ontario [Music] [Applause] [Music] and Niagara. Rainbows in the mist. Holidays to build a dream on. [Music]