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The land was sometimes referred to the "San Antonio lands", as they included half the water rights to [[Mount San Antonio]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hackenberger |first=Benjamin C. |date=January 2015 |title=The San Antonio Wash: Addressing the Gap Between Claremont and Upland |url=https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/136/ |journal=Pomona Senior Theses}}</ref> (colloquially known as "Mount Baldy"). They engineered a drainage system channelling water from the foothills of the mountain down to the flatter lands below that performed the dual functions of allowing farmers to water their crops and preventing the floods that periodically afflict them.
They also created the main thoroughfare of Euclid Avenue ([[State Route 83 (California)|California Highway 83]]), with its distinctive wide lanes and grassy median. A mule-drawn passenger tramway was used from 1887 to 1895 on the central reservation the Avenue, operated by the [[Ontario and San Antonio Heights Railroad Company]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pacific Electric Ontario & San Antonio Heights Line |url=https://www.erha.org/peeosah.htm |access-date=March 11, 2024 |website=www.erha.org}}</ref>
In 1885, the Chaffey brothers opened a campus of the [[University of Southern California]]. This included a secondary school.
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==Demographics==
The most common country of origin in Ontario besides the United States is Mexico. 19.04% of Ontario's population is Mexican-born. The other most common countries of origin outside the United States in Ontario are the [[Philippines]], [[El Salvador]], [[Guatemala]], [[Vietnam]], [[Korea]], [[China]], [[Honduras]], [[Thailand]] and [[Peru]]. The most common spoken languages in Ontario besides English are Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Tagalog, other Pacific Island language, Korean, Portuguese, Urdu and Arabic. Roman Catholicism is the most practiced religion.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ontarioca.gov/sites/default/files/Ontario-Files/Housing-Municipal-Services/_Ontario%20AFH%20Final%20adopted%202020-06-16.pdf|title=
_Ontario AFH Final Draft}}</ref> German, Irish, English, Italian and Dutch are the most common ancestries.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/ontario | title=Ontario, CA Real Estate Market Data - NeighborhoodScout }}
{{US Census population
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*[[Eudora Stone Bumstead]] (1860–1892), poet, hymnwriter
*[[Henry Bumstead]], [[Academy Award]]-winning cinematic art director and designer
*[[Beverly Cleary]], author and [[Newbery Medal]]-winning novelist (1984), ''The Luckiest Girl'' and memoir ''My Own Two Feet''
*[[Andy Clyde]], actor, married in Ontario in 1932
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*[[William De Los Santos]], poet, screenwriter and film director
*[[Joseph Dippolito]], former underboss of the [[Dragna crime family]]
*[[Landon Donovan]], former [[Los Angeles Galaxy]] and USMNT player; born in Ontario, raised in [[Redlands, California|Redlands]]
*[[Prince Fielder]], baseball player for the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]], [[Milwaukee Brewers]], and [[Detroit Tigers]]
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
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