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38-588: The school was established in Ontario, California , in 1883, when city founders and brothers George and William Chaffey donated land and established an endowment for a private college . The private school was founded as the Chaffey College of Agriculture through the University of Southern California ; USC, also a private university, had been founded three years earlier in nearby Los Angeles . The cornerstone of

76-641: A fourth campus in Ontario. Chaffey offers associate degrees and certificates. Chaffey offers one of the oldest aviation programs in the United States. The college athletic teams are nicknamed the Panthers. Teams compete in the Inland Empire Athletic Conference and National Central Conference annually. Ontario, California Ontario is a city in southwestern San Bernardino County in

114-523: A lesser extent Montclair. In 1885, the Chaffey brothers opened a campus of the University of Southern California . This included a secondary school. Also in 1885, the Ontario Record newspaper was founded. (It would later be known as The Daily Report .) The new "Model Colony" (called so because it offered the perfect balance between agriculture and the urban comforts of schools, churches, and commerce)

152-608: A living vestige of the citrus era. The Chaffey brothers left in 1886 to found the Australian irrigation settlements of Mildura and Renmark , selling their Ontario assets to the Ontario Land & Improvement Company. Its president was Charles Frankish. He founded the Ontario State Bank in 1887, the settlement's first bank. Central Ontario was incorporated as a city in 1891. The San Antonio Electric Light & Power Company

190-509: A postgraduate department to the high school. The school's buildings were renovated and additional buildings added during the New Deal . A separate junior college district was created in 1922 and in 1957 bonds were approved in support of a complete separation of the high school and college facilities. The current location in Rancho Cucamonga opened in the spring of 1960. The college's mascot

228-626: Is now Upland on the first known overland journey from the east coast to the west coast of North America. He used Native American trails that he helped establish as the California Trail . (This later became the National Old Trails Road , Route 66 , and today's Foothill Boulevard .) Use of the San Gabriel mission's Rancho Cucamonga was in 1839 granted to Tiburcio Tapia by Alta Californian governor Juan Bautista Alvarado as part of

266-565: Is the 15th-busiest airport in the United States by cargo carried. Ontario handles the mass of freight traffic between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the rest of the country. It takes its name from the Ontario Model Colony development established in 1882 by the Canadian engineer George Chaffey and his brothers William Chaffey and Charles Chaffey. They named the settlement after their home province of Ontario . Ontario

304-632: Is the Panther. President Bill Clinton visited Chaffey in 1996, announcing a proposal to finance two years of community college education to expand the basic education of all Americans to 14 years. Chaffey launched its online education program in 1999. Voters in 2002 approved the Measure L bond, providing up to $ 230 million in bonds during a 10-year period for the Facilities Master Plan. Through Measure L, Chaffey built its Chino campus in 2002 and expanded

342-581: The California 500 , and music events like California Jam . The Cardenas supermarket chain began in Ontario in 1981. The Daily Report merged with the nearby Progress Bulletin to become the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in 1990. An Ontario station of the Metrolink rail service opened in 1993 (it later became known as "Ontario – East"). Large shopping mall Ontario Mills opened to

380-715: The California Development Company as chief engineer and undertook a project to irrigate the Colorado Desert . The Colorado Desert was renamed by the Canadian party and is now known as the Imperial Valley . Chaffey along with the other pioneers believed this name would bring more people to this southeastern part of California . In 1905, Chaffey purchased the ranch of John Shepherd at Manzanar, California , located in California's Owens Valley . Chaffey subdivided

418-631: The El Camino Real . In 1804, the northern part of Las Californias became the new province of Nueva California . In 1810, the San Gabriel Franciscans took over the Tongva village of Kaawchama (in today's west Redlands ), replacing it with the Guachama rancheria . This included a chapel devoted to San Bernardino (beginning the association of the saint with the area). The rancheria was destroyed by

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456-565: The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel , founding what is today San Gabriel . They enslaved the Tongva people. The area was now part of the New Spain Province of Las Californias . Juan Bautista de Anza is said to have passed through the area on his 1774 expedition, which created a land route between the province of Sonora and San Gabriel. An Ontario city park and a middle school now bear his name. The route became known as

494-626: The Riverside irrigation colony. By 1886 he and his brother William had established the irrigation colonies of Etiwanda , Ontario , and Upland , which were extremely successful, thanks in large part to innovative features such as hydroelectric systems using mountain water, mutual water companies which eliminated disputes over water, and their creation and endowment of the Chaffey College of Agriculture . George's innovative electrical system at Etiwanda led Los Angeles to hire him to install its first streetlights. He eventually became president and engineer of

532-762: The Serrano in 1812, and was rebuilt nearby as the San Bernardino de Sena estancia in 1819. In 1822, word of the Mexican triumph in the Mexican War of Independence reached Nueva California, and the lands previously controlled by the Spanish Empire passed to the custody of the Mexican government . In 1824, the province of Nueva California was renamed Alta California . In 1826, American explorer Jedediah Smith passed through what

570-424: The secularization of California land holdings . This emancipated the Tongva enslaved there. The name Mount San Antonio was probably bestowed by Antonio Maria Lugo , owner of Rancho San Antonio near present-day Compton circa 1840, in honor of his patron saint, Anthony of Padua . In 1845, Rancho Cucamonga was inherited by Tapia's daughter, Maria Prudhomme, and her husband Leon Prudhomme. In January 1847,

608-502: The "Cucamonga Company". 20 years after the initial application, the California government formally converted the title of the rancho to freehold in 1872. In 1881, the Chaffey brothers, George and William , purchased a parcel of Hellman's Rancho Cucamonga land, and rights to Mount San Antonio water. The brothers established a settlement they named "Ontario" in honor of the province of Ontario in Canada , where they were from. The land

646-521: The Fontana campus, which opened in 1996. In 2017, Chaffey was named a top 10 community college in the nation by the Aspen Institute . Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott awarded Chaffey with a $ 25 million gift in 2021 because of Chaffey’s dedication to equity. The college’s passage of Measure P in 2018 allowed Chaffey to make repairs, upgrades and improvements at its three campuses. Plans are underway to build

684-466: The Inland Empire came about as the culmination of a lifelong rivalry between AMC's Stanley Durwood and Edwards Theaters' James Edwards. Edwards was infuriated when he learned Durwood had beaten him to a deal with Ontario Mills, and later told him, "I had to teach you a lesson". The Ontario Convention Centre opened in 1997. George Chaffey George Chaffey (28 January 1848 – 1 March 1932)

722-845: The Los Angeles Electric Company. In 1886, at the invitation of the South Australian and Victorian colonial governments, the Chaffeys undertook several irrigation projects in Australia, establishing colonies at Renmark and then Mildura . Though the Chaffeys appointed Herbert Jones to lecture on the Mildura project 'throughout the colonies', using lantern slides from J. W. Lindt's photographs, they were financial failures, and George Chaffey returned to California. William remained in Mildura, which eventually became successful. Later, George joined

760-565: The U.S. state of California, 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown Los Angeles and 23 miles (37 km) west of downtown San Bernardino , the county seat. Located in the western part of the Inland Empire metropolitan area, it lies just east of Los Angeles County and is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area . As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 175,265. The city is home to Ontario International Airport , which

798-595: The area became controlled by the United States following the conquest of California as part of the Mexican-American War , and was formalised by the Treaty of Cahuenga . Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the United States recognised the existing land tenure, and took formal control of the land. It ruled it under a military administration until a new civilian body was established in December 1849, which became

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836-480: The city. AM radio station KOCS began in 1946, which was followed by sister station KOCS-FM in 1947. The stations initially operated as part of The Daily Report, and would go on to change their name, format and ownership many times. In 1960, the higher education part of Chaffey College moved to nearby Rancho Cucamonga. From 1970 to 1980, the Ontario Motor Speedway hosted motor racing events including

874-543: The main thoroughfare of Euclid Avenue ( 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 . The San Antonio Water Company was incorporated in October 1882. Since then it has served the area that is today Ontario, Upland and San Antonio Heights, and to

912-407: The new school was laid on March 17, 1883, at Fourth and Euclid in Ontario; it opened on October 15, 1885. The original institution included a secondary school and was run by USC until 1901. During this period, Chaffey's football team had a 1–1 series with the young USC football team , winning 32–6 in 1893 and losing 38–0 in 1897. Financial troubles forced the school to close in 1901. The building

950-455: The people it covered remained legal. San Bernardino County was founded in 1853, following the establishment of a new Mormon settlement . A road was built between San Bernardino and Los Angeles that year, passing through Rancho Cucamonga. Rancho Cucamonga was sold in 1858 to John Rains . Slavery of Native Americans became illegal in California in 1865. John Rain's heirs sold Rancho Cucamonga in 1870 to an Isaias Hellman -led syndicate,

988-502: The public on November 14, 1996, on the old Ontario Motor Speedway parking lot. On December 13, 1996, AMC Theatres opened AMC Ontario Mills 30 in Ontario, which it billed as the "world's largest theater". Three months later, Edwards Theaters opened the Edwards Ontario Palace 22 across the street. Ontario now had 52 screens on the one site, more than any other location in the United States. The opening of that many screens in

1026-597: The ranch, along with other adjacent ranches, and founded the town of Manzanar in 1910. Chaffey's Owens Valley Improvement Company built an irrigation system and planted thousands of fruit trees, and by 1920, the town had more than twenty-five homes, a two-room school, a town hall, and a general store. Also at that time, nearly 5,000 acres (2,023 ha) of apple, pear, and peach trees were being grown, along with grapes, prunes, potatoes, corn, alfalfa and large vegetable and flower gardens. In 1912, Chaffey moved to Whittier, California , joining his son John, where he lived for

1064-555: The state of California in September 1850. In February 1850, the interim California government established Los Angeles County . (The earlier Los Angeles municipal government did not cover today's Ontario.) The new Californian administration soon began a war of extermination against the Tongva, which came to be known as being part of the California genocide . 1850's Act for the Government and Protection of Indians ensured that slavery of

1102-581: Was a Canadian engineer , inventor and entrepreneur who with his brother William developed large parts of Southern California , including what became the community of Etiwanda and the cities of Ontario , and Upland . They undertook similar developments in Australia , which became the city of Mildura , and the town of Renmark and Paringa . Chaffey was born in Brockville , Canada West and attended Kingston Grammar School on Lake Ontario . Chaffey's family

1140-600: Was declared a "model colony" by an act of Congress in 1903. North Ontario broke away from the city in 1906, calling itself Upland . In 1912, the streetcar line became the Upland–Ontario Line of Pacific Electric . It was closed in 1928. In 1929, the city of Ontario established the Ontario Municipal Airport. This is now the Ontario International Airport , and is the largest employer in

1178-420: Was greatly expanded in 1900. Tens of thousands of European immigrants came to work in agriculture. In the early 1900s, the first Filipinos and Japanese farm laborers arrived, and later many came to own plant nurseries. In 1901, the original college closed, and a new Ontario High School replaced it. This soon became Chaffey College , and offered college courses as well as high school education. Ontario

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1216-631: Was inhabited by the Tongva people for over 1,000 years. Their country is now known as Tovaangar . The Ontario area was connected to the village of Cucamonga , whose location is not now precisely known. The Spanish Empire 's New Spain Portolá expedition found and named the Santa Ana River in 1769. They also explored the Cucamonga area. In 1771, Franciscans from New Spain settled nearby, and established

1254-488: Was of Scottish heritage. Although not interested in schoolroom instruction, he read engineering books from the local library. Chaffey left school at 13 years of age, was fascinated by the shipbuilding yard of his father, and became an apprentice marine engineer in May 1862. By 1880 he was well established as a designer of ships for Great Lakes traffic. While visiting his father in California that year, however, he became interested in

1292-487: Was organized in 1891 to provide electricity to Ontario, Pomona and Redlands. The Graber Olive House was established in 1894, and is now the longest operating olive packing business in the United States. In 1895, the Ontario Electric Company was established by Charles Frankish. In its first year it took over the mule-cars, and replaced them with electrical powered vehicles. The City of Ontario's territory

1330-494: Was originally conceived as a dry town, early deeds containing clauses forbidding the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages within the town. Ontario attracted farmers (primarily growing citrus ) and ailing Easterners seeking a drier climate (often to treat tuberculosis ). To impress visitors and potential settlers with the "abundance" of water in Ontario, a fountain was placed at the Southern Pacific railway station . It

1368-424: Was sometimes referred to the "San Antonio lands", as they included half the water rights to Mount San Antonio (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

1406-472: Was taken over by the city and became the home of Ontario High School (now Chaffey High School ). In 1906 the Chaffey endowment was legally separated from USC and reorganized to benefit the newly created Chaffey Union High School District . When Ontario High school opened to students from Upland in 1911, its present name was adopted. In 1916, the Chaffey Junior College of Agriculture was added as

1444-509: Was turned on when passenger trains were approaching and frugally turned off again after their departure. The original "Chaffey fountain", a simple spigot surrounded by a ring of white stones, was later replaced by the more ornate "Frankish Fountain", an art nouveau creation now located outside the Ontario Museum of History and Art. Agriculture was vital to the early economy, and many street names recall this legacy. The Sunkist plant remains as

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