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1. The Canadian shield covers up the northern and western parts of Ontario, which are unfertile lands covered with rocks, but instead southern and eastern parts of Ontario are covered with fertile lands.
2. In the beginning of the 20th century Eastern Ontario was manufacturing a large per cent of its total food demand. Because of the relocation of farms to rural areas and focusing on manufacturing less kind of food turned the

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