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Greater Golden
Horseshoe
Inner Ring,
starts from Niagara
Falls at the eastern end of the Niagara Peninsula
and extends west, wrapping around the western end of Lake
Ontario at Hamilton and then turning northeast to its
anchor city Toronto
before terminating at Oshawa.
Outer Ring,
spreads inland in all directions away from the Lake Ontario
shoreline, southwest to Brantford, west to the Kitchener-Waterloo
area, north to Barrie,
and northeast to Peterborough.
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Census Metropolitan
Areas in the Golden Horseshoe
1. Toronto
CMA 5,113,149
2. Hamilton CMA 692,911
3. Kitchener-Waterloo
CMA 451,235
4. St.
Catharines - Niagara
CMA 390,317
5. Oshawa CMA 330,594
6. Barrie
CMA 177,061
7. Guelph
CMA 127,009
8. Brantford CMA 124,607
9. Peterborough
CMA 116,570
Wikipedia
The phrase, "Golden
Horseshoe," was first used by Westinghouse President,
Herbert H. Rogge, in a speech to the Hamilton Chamber of
Commerce, on January 12, 1954:
“Hamilton in 50
years will be the forward cleat in a 'golden horseshoe'
of industrial development from Oshawa to the Niagara River...150
miles long and 50 miles (80 km) wide...It will run from
Niagara
Falls on the south to about Oshawa on the north and
take in numerous cities and towns already there, including
Hamilton and Toronto."
Fast
Facts
The "horseshoe"
part of the region's name is derived from the characteristic
horseshoe shape of the west end of Lake Ontario with Burlington
roughly positioned in the centre. The "golden"
part is historically attributed to the region's wealth and
prosperity, according to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
(An alternative explanation often quoted attributes it to
its bright, or "golden", appearance from space,
as a result of a continuous urban stretch of nighttime lights;
however, the name predates satellite imagery.) Wikipedia
An assumption is that
the phrase "You've got horseshoes up your ass"
is a way of saying someone is lucky and it relates to the
"golden" part!
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