There are people in Ontario.
Northern Ontario . The geographic region has a land area of 802,000 km2 ( 310,000 mi2 ) and constitutes 87 per cent of the land area of Ontario , but with just 730,000 people it contains only about six per cent of the province 's population . Ontario . It is Canada 's most populous province by a large margin , accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians , and is the second-largest province in total area . The great majority of Ontario 's population and arable land is located in the south . In contrast , the larger , northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and is heavily forested .