Heading Down the 401 Trivia Quiz

Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is the only city in Canada where you can look north to the United States. The Ambassador Bridge, which crosses the Detroit River to Michigan, is the busiest international commercial crossing between the two countries.

Helped by its proximity to Detroit, the city is known as Canada's Automotive Capital and has historically been home to many automotive manufacturing plants.

London is approximately halfway between Toronto and Detroit. The city is an educational hub as the home to the University of Western Ontario and Fanshawe College - which have a combined annual enrolment of around 50,000. Many famous Canadians were born in London - from insulin pioneer Frederick Banting to actor Ryan Gosling and from singer Justin Bieber to figure skater Tessa Virtue.

Cambridge is the southernmost of the three cities of Waterloo Region, Parts of the 401 serve as the boundary between Kitchener and Cambridge, with Waterloo located to the north of Kitchener. The City of Cambridge was formed by the consolidation of the historic communities of Preston, Galt, Hespeler, and Blair which results in the city having multiple "downtown" cores.

These areas have been used to film many television shows such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Queen's Gambit".

Despite being considered primarily as a suburb of Toronto, Mississauga itself is the sixth-largest city in Canada. It has a larger population than the US cities of Boston, Nashville, and Atlanta. That's a lot of people for a city that was only incorporated in 1967.

The name of the city comes from an Ojibwa word meaning 'river of many mouths'. It was the overwhelming win of a public vote in 1967, defeating second-place finisher Sheridan by a near 3-to-1 margin. In 1978 the city elected 57-year old Hazel McCallion as the city's fifth mayor. "Hurricane Hazel" would remain in that position for 36 years, winning re-election eight times.

Toronto is the capital city of Ontario, and the largest city in Canada. Six of Ontario's 400-series highways travel through the city of Toronto. The city is a entertainment hub for between the Toronto International Film Festival, various music, cultural and food festivals that occur each summer, and a range of professional sports teams and events that play year-round.

Similar to Windsor, much of Oshawa's history has been connected to automotive engineering. Oshawa is home to General Motors' Canadian headquarters, and the local Ontario Hockey League's Oshawa Generals are named in their honour. During the initial expansion of the automobile in the 1920s, the population of Oshawa quadrupled from 4,000 to 16,000 as people moved to the area to work in the plants. Colonel Robert McLaughlin, who founded the first automotive plant in Oshawa in 1907 - had a 55-room stately home built in what is now downtown Oshawa.

It is now recognized as a National Historic Site.

Belleville sits at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte. Settlement in the area began early in the 19th century as a mill town but really took off when the Grand Trunk Railway was completed in 1856 which turned the town into a railway hub. Belleville has had a long-time involvement in hockey, first with the Belleville Bulls of the Ontario Hockey League and later with the Belleville Senators of the American Hockey League.

Kingston sits at the junction of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. It served as the capital of Upper Canada for three years from 1841 to 1844. Sir John A. Macdonald was born in Scotland, but spent much of his childhood in Kingston after his family emigrated in 1820.

Brockville is named after British general Isaac Brock. It was initially an informal name for the town generated by its residents, most of whom were American Revolutionary War migrants, who considered Brock a hero for his defeat of American troops early in the War of 1812. Brock was made aware of the name of the town that the residents had chosen, although he was killed near the end of the war before visiting the town. Brockville is the largest town along the St. Lawrence River without a bridge connecting it to the United States.

Cornwall is Ontario's easternmost city, only 30 km from the border with Quebec. For two days in 1813, the city was occupied by American troops as part of the Battle of Chrysler's Farm during the War of 1812. The Cornwall Royals played in both the Ontario Hockey League and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for many years and won the Memorial Cup three times.

The team moved to Newmarket in 1992.