Bruce Peninsula

The Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada lies between Georgian Bay and the main basin of Lake Huron. It extends roughly northnorthwestwards from the rest of southern Ontario, pointing towards Manitoulin Island, with which it forms the widest strait, the Main Channel, joining Georgian Bay to the rest of Lake Huron. The peninsula is part of the ridge known as the Niagara Escarpment. Administratively the Bruce Peninsula (often referred to as just the Bruce) is part of Bruce County. The area is a tourist destination. Towns on ...

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Bruce County Ontario - Historic Townships. Albermarle (Hope Bay, McIver, Colpoy's Bay, Mar, Red Bay) now in South Bruce Peninsula Amabel (Wiarton, Oliphant, Sauble Falls, Skipness, Park Head, Allenford) now in South Bruce Peninsula Arran (Elsinore, Tara, Invermay, Burgoyne) now in Arran-Elderslie Brant (Walkerton, Maple Hill, Dunkeld, Eden Grove, Vesta, Elmwood) now in Brockton Bruce (Underwood, Inverhuron) now in the Municipality of Kincardine Carrick (Formosa, ...

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An alvar or pavement barren is a limestone plain with thin or no soil and, as a result, sparse vegetation. This environment suffers from poor drainage, so these areas flood in the spring and become very dry and hot in the summer. This challenging habitat supports a community of rare plants and animals, including species more commonly found on prairie grasslands. Lichen and mosses are common species. Trees and bushes are absent or severely stunted. Alvars can be found in southern Sweden, northwest Estonia and around the Great La ...

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(Statistics Canada, 2001) Population change (1996-2001): -2.7 Dwellings: 36,864 Density (per sq. km.): 15.4 National rank in terms of population: 93 Provincial rank in terms of population: 36 People 96.2% White 2.9% Aboriginal 0.9 all others ...

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Ontario is the most populous and second-largest in area of Canada's ten provinces. It is found in east-central Canada. Its capital is Toronto. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is also located in Ontario. As of July 1, 2005 there are 12,541,410 Ontarians (resident of Ontario), representing approximately 37.9% of the total Canadian population and an area of 1,076,395km² (415,598 sq. mi.). Ontario - Geography. Further information: List of Ontario counties Ontario is bounded on the nor ...

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The M.S. Chi-Cheemaun is a passenger and car ferry in Ontario, Canada, which traverses Lake Huron between Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula and South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island. The ferry connects the two geographically-separate portions of Highway 6. Chi-Cheemaun - History. A trip aboard the M.S. Chi-Cheemaun is a long-standing Great Lakes tradition dating back to the 1930s when a small, wooden vessel, the Kagawong, first ferried automobiles across the waters of Georgian Bay between Tobermory and ...

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Study of rock exposures and drillholes demonstrates that there is no displacement of the rock layers at the Escarpment: this is not a fault line but the result of unequal erosion. The Niagara Escarpment has a caprock of dolomitic limestone ("dolostone") which is more resistant and overlies weaker, more easily eroded shale as a weathering-resistant "cap". In other words, the escarpment formed over millions of years through a process of differential erosion of rocks of different hardnesses. Through time the soft rocks weather away or erode by ...

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A trip aboard the M.S. Chi-Cheemaun is a long-standing Great Lakes tradition dating back to the 1930s when a small, wooden vessel, the Kagawong, first ferried automobiles across the waters of Georgian Bay between Tobermory and South Baymouth. At the time of its launch, the $12 million Canadian Chi-Cheemaun was the 'largest, most modern vessel ever built for ferry service on the Great Lakes'. It features a drive-on, drive-off bow and stern loading and unloading through a visored bow system and a square door stern section. The ship is 3 ...

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The company was incorporated on November 10, 1852 as the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada to build a railway line between Montreal and Toronto, however the charter was soon extended east to Portland, Maine and west to Sarnia, Ontario. In 1853 the GTR purchased the St. Lawrence & Atlantic from Montreal to the Quebec-Vermont border, and the partner company Atlantic & St. Lawrence through to the harbour facilities at Portland. A line was also built to Lévis, via Richmond from Montreal in 1855, part of the much-talked about ...

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Ontario - Pre-1867. Before the arrival of the Europeans, the region was inhabited both by Algonquian (Ojibwa, Cree and Algonquin) and Iroquoian (Iroquois and Huron) tribes. The French explorer Étienne Brûlé explored part of the area in 1610-12. The English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson Bay in 1611 and claimed the area for England, but Samuel de Champlain reached Lake Huron in 1615 and French missionaries began to establish posts along the Great Lakes. French settlement was hampered by their hostilities with the Iroquois, who would ally themsel ...

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The Welland Canal allows ships to traverse the Escarpment between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The escarpment was a major obstacle in the construction of the Erie Canal in New York and was traversed by a series of locks; the community which grew up at the site thus became known as Lockport, New York. Within southern Ontario, The Bruce Trail runs the length of the escarpment from Queenston to Tobermory. The City of Hamilton, Ontario is situated on the Escarpment in such a way that the north end of the city is below and the south ...

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Ontario is bounded on the north by Hudson Bay and James Bay, on the east by Quebec, on the west by Manitoba, and on the south by the American states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Ontario's long American border is formed almost entirely by lakes and rivers, starting in Lake of the Woods and continuing to the Saint Lawrence River near Cornwall; it passes through the four Great Lakes on which Ontario has coastline, namely Lakes Superior, Huron (which includes Georgian Bay), Erie, and Ontario (for which the province is ...

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The major racial/ethnic groups in Ontario are: European: 80.9% (Major groups: English, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Italian) South Asian: 4.9% Chinese: 3.7% Black: 3.6% Aboriginal: 1.7% Filipino: 1.3% Latin-American: 0.9% Other: 3.0% External link: Ontario at Statistics Canada Increasing immigration from all parts of the world, especially to Toronto and its environs, is rapidly diversifying the province's ethnic makeup. About five per cent of the population of Ontario is Franco-Ontarian. 10 ...

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As the dominant railway in British North America, GTR was reportedly asked by the federal government soon after Confederation to consider building a rail line to the Pacific coast at British Columbia (B.C.) but refused, forcing the government to enact legislation creating the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to meet B.C.'s conditions for joining Confederation. By the early 1900s, GTR desired to operate in Western Canada, particularly given the virtual monopoly of service that CPR maintained and the lucrative increasing flows of immigrants west ...

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Ontario's rivers, particularly its share of the Niagara River, make it rich in hydroelectric energy. This competitive advantage, as well as excellent transportation links to the American heartland, has contributed to making manufacturing the principal industry, found mainly in the Golden Horseshoe region, the most industrialized area in Canada. Important products include motor vehicles, iron, steel, food, electrical appliances, machinery, chemicals, and paper. Ontario surpassed the American state of Michigan in car production, assembling 2.696 million vehicles in 2004 (see Canada-U ...

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The weather in Ontario is very diverse. The south, including Greater Toronto Area receives very hot, humid weather in the summer, as the stronger the Bermuda high pressure over the Atlantic Ocean, the more warm, humid air is transported northward from the Gulf of Mexico. Severe thunderstorms peak in frequency in June and July, most notably in Southwestern and Central Ontario. Northwestern Ontario also receives short period ...

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Land was not legally subdivided into administrative units until a treaty had been concluded with the native peoples ceding the land (see Royal Proclamation of 1763). In 1788, while part of the Province of Quebec (1763-1791), southern Ontario was divided into four districts: Hesse, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Nassau. In 1792, the four districts were renamed: Hesse became the Western District, Lunenburg became the Eastern District, Mecklenburg became the Midland District, and Nassau became the Home District. Counties were created within the districts. By 1798, there were eight districts: Eastern, Home, ...

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