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1 Background This food web has been damaged not only by over-fishing and changes in nutrient levels but also by other types of pollution from industrial chemicals agricultural fertilizers untreated sewage phosphates from laundry detergents and pesticides Some pollutant chemicals that have been found in the lake include DDT benzo[a]pyrene and other pesticides; PCBs aramite chromium lead mirex mercury and carbon tetrachloride the International Joint Commission has identified areas where pollution is particularly intense (point sources) and mapped them as Areas of Concern a Remedial Action Plan has been developed for each area Some Lake Ontario areas of concern include the Oswego River and Rochester Embayment on the American side and Hamilton Harbour and Toronto on the Canadian side.[citation needed]. 1861 1,396,091 +46.6% New City Hall Toronto 1 (8030180482).jpg, Halton High School These groups of later Loyalists were proportionately larger in the early decades of the province's settlement the Mennonites Tunkers Quakers and Children of Peace are the traditional Peace churches the Mennonites and Tunkers were generally German-speaking and immigrated as Later Loyalists from Pennsylvania Many of their descendants continue to speak a form of German called Pennsylvania German the Quakers (Society of Friends) immigrated from New York the New England States and Pennsylvania the Children of Peace were founded during the War of 1812 after a schism in the Society of Friends in York County a further schism occurred in 1828 leaving two branches "Orthodox" Quakers and "Hicksite" Quakers Poverty. . Year Pop Baptists 16,411 6.2 Hall of Famers 2012 18,681 Undergraduate Graduate 7 Legacy 5 Players and personnel The 1795 Jay Treaty officially set the borders between British North America and the United States north to the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River on 1 February 1796 the capital of Upper Canada was moved from Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake) to York (now Toronto) which was judged to be less vulnerable to attack by the US The Act of Union 1840 passed 23 July 1840 by the British Parliament and proclaimed by the Crown on 10 February 1841 merged Upper Canada with Lower Canada to form the short-lived United Province of Canada Government. .
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