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Detailed information about Ontario. (800 words) |
 | The shield was granted Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria in 1868. |
| The cross of the shield is on a white background. |
| Below the moose, the shield and the deer, there is a banner with the latin motto Ut incepit Fidelis sic permanet which translates to Loyal she began, loyal she remains. |
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| COAT OF ARMS: In the center, the provincial shield of arms displays in the upper third the cross of St. George (a red cross on a white background) and in the lower two-thirds three gold maple leaves on a green background. |
| Ontario, five times as large as France, covers some 412,579 square miles (1,068,580 square kilometers) and is bordered on the north by Hudson Bay; on the east by Québec; on the south by the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and the US state of Minnesota; and on the west by Manitoba. |
| The populous regions of southern Ontario are divided into counties, regional municipalities, the Municipality of Metro Toronto, the District Municipality of Muskoka, and the Restructured County of Oxford. |
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