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By Susan Munroe, About.com

Definition: The province of Ontario is one of the ten provinces and three territories that make up Canada.

The name for the province of Ontario is from an Iroquois word meaning beautiful lake or beautiful water and was first used for Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes.

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