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…showed last 75 words of 1120 total…an answer. With this definition, four areas were examined. These were urban centers, transportation infrastructures, politics and industry. All four areas needed to be developed for Ontario to graduate out of the pioneer stage. It is amazing to think how fast Ontario developed from its first Loyalist settlers in 1780 and only eighty seven years later Ontario celebrates Confederation. In 1872 Oliver Mowat became premier, not of a pioneer society but of a flourishing well developed society.