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The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) was established in 1936. It was organized in response to the creation of the Canadian Chamber of Agriculture in 1935. In 1941, OFA hired permanent staff, as up until this point it had been run as a volunteer organization. In 1945, OFA conducted its first major survey, inquiring on the state of farming and farm organization activity. This provided insight and an accurate picture of the needs, activities, and interests of farmers in every part of Ontario. OFA continues to this day conducting surveys in order to gather input and feedback from members. For more than 80 years, OFA has been advocating and lobbying on behalf of Ontario’s farm families.

Now defunct, the Ontario Forage Crops Committee (OFCC) was made up of representatives of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Canadian Seed Growers Association, the Canadian Seed Trade Association, the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, the Ontario Cattlemen's Association, the Ontario Forage Council, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, and the University of Guelph. The OFCC reviewed research work on forage species and had used this information to prepare production recommendations. As part of this effort, the committee evaluated under Ontario conditions the performance of experimental varieties of forages. Tests were conducted each year by the following co-operative agencies: The University of Guelph agricultural research stations at Elora, Kemptville, and New Liskeard, and the Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Station.

The Ontario Institute of Agrologists, founded in 1960, connects and trains professionals who work across the sectors of agriculture, bioresources, food, agri-business and the environment. It establishes, maintains, develops, and enforces standards of qualification and practice, a code of ethics, and skills and proficiency for agriculture and agrology professionals.

https://oia.on.ca/page/AboutOIA

Although its location had previously rotated between Toronto, Guelph, and Woodstock, the Ontario Provincial Winter Fair (PWF) was permanently held in Guelph after 1889, after which time it was also known as the Guelph Winter Fair. The PWF building was built in 1900 at 1 Carden Street [Market Square], next to the Guelph City Hall, and was expanded again in 1910. The PWF was held annually until 1939, when it was cancelled due to the Second World War. It was never revived.

The Ontario Red Triangle Baby Beef Association was a beef marketing organization founded by Ontario farm leaders including Harold “Pete” Huffman (1901-1986) and Harry Wilson (1887-1982).

The Ontario Sugar Beet Growers’ Marketing Board was established in 1942 under the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Act of 1937. Some of the founders and early chairmen of the Board were Martin Drew (1874-1949), Eugene Roy (1896-1965), Normand Bélanger (1916-1962), and George Higgs (1918-2003).

The oldest veterinary school in Canada, the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) was founded in Toronto in 1862 by Andrew Smith (1834-1910), a graduate of the Edinburgh Veterinary College. Recruited by Adam Fergusson of the Board of Agriculture of Upper Canada and University of Toronto agriculture professor George Buckland, Smith came to Canada in 1861 and began giving lectures on veterinary medicine in February 1862. By 1864, Smith was granted a charter by the Upper Canada Board of Agriculture to formally open the privately-owned Upper Canada Veterinary School.

Initially located in Agricultural Hall at Queen and Younge in Toronto, the Upper Canada Veterinary School changed its name to the Ontario Veterinary College in 1869 and moved to buildings on Temperance Street in Toronto in 1870. The OVC was incorporated in 1896 and became affiliated with the University of Toronto in 1897. When Smith retired in 1908, the OVC was acquired by the Government of Ontario and placed under the direction of the Department of Agriculture. The OVC moved to more modern facilities on University Avenue in Toronto in 1914.

The decline of the urban horse population and an increased demand for livestock and food-producing animals after the First World War led the government to move the OVC to Guelph in 1922 so as to be in close proximity to the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), also run by the Department of Agriculture. The OVC remained affiliated with the University of Toronto until it became a founding college of the University of Guelph in 1964.

Open Circle Theatre was founded in Toronto by Sylvia Tucker and Ray Whelan. Its mandate was to produce works that were concerned with social issues relevant at that time. Additional to socially aware productions, Open Circle also presented adaptations of classics, musicals and original materials. After bearing the brunt of several poor reviews, Open Circle closed in 1982 due to deficit.

The Tudhope Anderson Company, a farm equipment and commercial wheel manufacturer, was founded in Orillia, Ontario in 1910. In 1936, it was re-incorporated as the Orillia Tudhope Anderson Company (Otaco). Otaco produced stoves, heaters, logging sleights, snow-plows, wheelbarrows and farm and logging wagons, as well as their well-known Auto-Trac to convert cars to tractors. After the Second World War, the company also manufactured pumps and water systems, boat kits and boat trailers and also became one of Canada’s largest farm implement producers with a specialization in farm wagons, wheels, and hubs. Otaco also produced quality toys, including Minnitoy tanker and transport trucks, and was one of the first companies in Canada to manufacture using Ductalloy Iron steel. The company also produced heavy-duty haulage sleds for the US Navy.

Otaco was purchased in 1961 by R.M. Barr and became a division of Bartaco Industries Limited until it was sold to Redlaw Industries in 1984. Redlaw continued to operate the Orillia foundry until closing it in 1990.

The Outaouais Popular Theatre was founded by Eleanor Crowder in Ottawa in 1985 in response to the strong interest in popular theatre evident among members of the International Development. It was designed to promote possibilities of political change and action through the use of "Theatre of the Oppressed" methodology, which is used to provide a kind of theatre where the play allows expression, by the audience, of real possibilities for positive action.