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Ontario is a city in southwestern San Bernardino County in the U.S. state of California, 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown Los Angeles and 23 miles (37 km) west of downtown San Bernardino, the county seat.
In 1934, Graber enlarged his cannery on the Ontario site. Nine years later, their sons, Robert and William, took over the business, although Cliff remained active until his death in 1955 at age 83. By 1963, Robert ("Bob") Graber, who was born in the family home on the Graber Olives property in Ontario, had become sole proprietor of the business.
Ontario and San Antonio Heights Railroad Company is a former railway company which operated in Ontario, California. The company's service is noted for using a Gravity Mule Car from 1887 to 1895. The mule-car served Ontario until 1895, when the line was electrified by new owners, Ontario Electric Company.
Ontario Ranch is a master-planned community located in the southern portion of the city of Ontario, California. It is the largest master-planned community in Southern California. [ 1 ] The community is located south of E. Riverside Drive, north of Eastvale , and between Euclid and Milliken Avenues, 2 miles west of Interstate 15 (the Ontario ...
The Hofer Ranch is a historic ranch and ranch headquarters compound located in Ontario, located in the Pomona Valley and San Bernardino County, in southern California. It is within the Cucamonga Valley AVA Wine Appellation.
George Chaffey. George Chaffey (28 January 1848 – 1 March 1932) was a Canadian engineer, inventor and entrepreneur who with his brother William developed large parts of Southern California, including what became the community of Etiwanda and the cities of Ontario, and Upland.
Ontario Motor Speedway was a motorsport venue located in Ontario, California.It was the first and only automobile racing facility built to accommodate major races sanctioned by all of the four dominant racing sanctioning bodies: USAC (and now IndyCar Series) for open-wheel oval car races; NASCAR for a 500-mile (800 km) oval stock car races; NHRA for drag races; and FIA for Formula One road ...
However, by 1889, some 2,000 acres of citrus orchards had been planted on Ontario, and Ontario was rated as having the second largest citrus acreage in the state. [22] Upland in 1906. The present-day city of Upland was the originally northern part of Chaffee's Ontario Model Colony, and was known as "North Ontario" or "Magnolia" after a local ...