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Website. stcatharines .ca. St. Catharines is the most populous city in Canada's Niagara Region, the eighth largest urban area in the province of Ontario. As of 2017, St. Catharines has an area of 96.13 square kilometres (37.12 sq mi) and 140,370 residents. It lies in Southern Ontario, 51 kilometres (32 mi) south of Toronto across ...
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Saint Catharines es una ciudad localizada en la provincia...
- St. Catharines - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
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Indigenous Peoples Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Iroquoian-speaking Chonnonton, or “people of the deer,” lived in the region that now includes St. Catharines, between the Grand and Niagara rivers. Often referred to as the Neutral, this name was given to them by the French who observed that the tribe remained neutral in most conflicts betwe...
At St. Catharines, the core community, the Welland Canal (1829) and an associated mill raceway from the canal at Merritton introduced mills, shipyards, and metal and machinery manufacturing to the area. Mineral springs with medicinal properties added resort hotels, and the town became a popular inland summer resort. In the latter half of the 19th c...
A continuous strip of industrial and associated housing developments arose along the canal valley between St. Catharines and Merritton after the 1850s, where the canal was crossed by the Great Western Railway. Paper and chemical industries developed and Port Dalhousie, served by the Welland Railway, added flour mills, the manufacture of rubber boot...
The city contains over 30 per cent of the population in the Regional Municipality of Niagara. About 76 per cent of St. Catharines reported their ethnic origins as English, Canadian or Scottish, according to the 2016 census. Visible minorities make up 12.7 per cent of the population, with Black, Chinese, Latin American and South Asian people compris...
Over time, service activities have expanded, resulting in a remarkably changed economic structure in the city, from primarily manufacturing with some service activities to service industries (education, health services, city administration and policing) with some accompanying manufacturing. The manufacturing sector has been in decline since the ear...
As a district transportation centre on the main routes through southwestern Ontario, St. Catharines features main-line passenger and freight railway services by Via Rail and Canadian National; the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 406; and an inter-urban and intra-urban bus terminal. A GO (Government of Ontario) bus service connects Niagara Falls, St...
One of 12 municipalities in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, St. Catharines is governed by a mayor elected at large and 12 councillors, two from each of the six wards. (See also Municipal Government in Canada.) The mayor and six councillors elected at large serve on the 29-member Regional Niagara Council. Parks and libraries, the fire departme...
St. Catharines has a rich and expanding cultural base. The Carousel Players and Garden City Productions provide live theatre and the Niagara Symphony Orchestra is now the orchestra-in-residence at Brock University. Chorus Niagara, formerly part of the symphony, has since 1963 provided a varied classical choral repertoire. Rodman Hall Arts Centre ha...
Saint Catharines es una ciudad localizada en la provincia canadiense de Ontario. Su área es de 94.4 km², su población de 129.170 habitantes, y su densidad de población es de 1 330.2 hab/km². La ciudad fue fundada en la década de 1780, e incorporada en 1876. La ciudad se ubica al sur del lago Ontario, en la Municipalidad Regional de Niágara.
St. Catharines is a city of 137,000 people (2021) in the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. It has the Welland Canal, a dry-dock for ships, and automotive plants. A pond near the mouth of the first Welland Canal now hosts regional and national rowing championships every year.
St. Catharines is also home to Brock University. St. Catharines is the most populous city in Canada's Niagara Region, the eighth largest urban area in the province of Ontario. As of 2017, St. Catharines has an area of 96.13 square kilometres (37.12 sq mi) and 140,370 residents.
St. Catharines es la ciudad más grande de la región del Niágara y ha sido apodada la "Ciudad Jardín" debido a sus numerosos jardines, parques y senderos. Hay al menos cuatro kilómetros cuadrados de espacios verdes dentro de los límites de la ciudad.
