The Ontario Greenbelt (not to be confused with the Ottawa Greenbelt in the same province) is a permanently protected area of green space, farmland, forests, wetlands, and watersheds, located in Southern Ontario, Canada. It encompasses a significant portion of Canada's most populated and fastest-growing area - The Golden Horseshoe. Created by legislation passed by the Ontario Liberal Government in 2005, the Greenbelt is considered a major step in the prevention of urban development and sprawl on environmentally-sensitive land in the province. At over 1.8 million acres, the Greenbelt is larger than Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island. Its most prominent land features include the Niagara Escarpment, the Oak Ridges Moraine, and the Rouge Park. Categories: Ottawa | Canada-related stubs ... Southern Ontario is the portion of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies south of the French River and Algonquin Park. ... The census divisions that constitute the original Golden Horseshoe appear in red on the map. ... The Ontario Liberal Party is a center-right provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective. ... Sprawl; please see: urban sprawl (also called suburban sprawl) For the metropolitan region stretching from Boston to Atlanta in William Gibsons fiction, see The Sprawl. ... Motto: Parva Sub Ingenti (Latin: The small under the protection of the great) Official languages None Flower Ladys slipper Capital Charlottetown Largest city Charlottetown Lieutenant-Governor J. Léonce Bernard Premier Pat Binns (PC) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 4 4 Area Total  - Land  - Water    (% of total)  Ranked... Rattlesnake Point near Milton, Ontario. ... The Oak Ridges Moraine is an ecologically sensitive geological landform in south central Ontario, Canada. ... Rouge Park is a large urban park located in east end Toronto. ...

See Also

• Green belt

For other uses of the word Greenbelt, see Greenbelt (disambiguation). ...

External Links

• Ontario's Greenbelt website