[CoffeeBreak]

I've often thought that weather played an important role in deciding which cities in Southern and Central Ontario developed more over the last century. For example, Owen Sound is in a snowbelt region that gets significant dumps of snow at certain times of the year. Meanwhile, Toronto appears to be ideally situated in one of the few spots in the region that is rarely impacted from lake effect snow (complete luck of geography). I travel back and forth between Toronto and Barrie during the winter ski season, and I'm often amazed at the difference in snow and temperatures over the course of a two-hour drive. It could be a mere coincidence, but I can't help but wonder if earlier settlers in Ontario noticed the difference too, and gradually just moved and resettled over time to the area around Toronto.