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Restoule Lake
Restoule Lake is a lake found in the Almaguin Highlands region of the Parry Sound District in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is one of the larger lakes in the area and contains many islands. It was discovered by fur traders. The lake is named after native chief Joseph Restoule. The Grawbrager family were the first to settle there in 1840. Restoule Provincial Park Restoule Provincial Park is a provincial park in Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada. It is located between Restoule Lake and Stormy Lake (Ontario), Stormy Lake and extends along the banks of the Restoule River to its mouth at the Fre ... is located on the north shore of the lake. See also * List of lakes in Ontario References National Resources Canada Lakes of Parry Sound District {{Canada-lake-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Restoule River
The Restoule River is a river in Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada. It rises at Commanda Lake in geographic Patterson Township at the community of Restoule. It then flows north into Restoule Lake then north into Stormy Lake at Restoule Provincial Park, at the end of Ontario Highway 534. It then heads west into geographic Hardy Township to its mouth at the French River. The total length of the river is about . From Lennon Lake in Hardy Township to the mouth, the river forms a boundary of the Dokis 9 First Nations reserve. Tributaries *Portage Creek (left) *Burnt Lake Creek (right) See also *List of rivers of Ontario This is the list of rivers which are in and flow through Ontario. The watershed list includes tributaries as well. Dee River, flows between Three Mile Lake and Lake Rosseau. List of rivers arranged by watershed Hudson Bay Atlantic Ocean ... References Sources * * {{refend Rivers of Parry Sound District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porter Island (Restoule Lake)
Porter Island is an island in the Rideau River, located just over 1 km from the mouth of the river, between the neighbourhoods of New Edinburgh and Lower Town in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Porter Island is connected to the Lowertown neighbourhood by the Porter Island Bridge and a closed off steel truss pedestrian bridge. The latter bridge, was built in 1894 by the Dominion Bridge Company, and was apparently closed off due to deteriorating wooden planks. It is home to the Garry J. Armstrong Long Term Care Home and the Chartwell Rockcliffe Retirement Residence. History Porter Island is named for John Porter, an early inhabitant of the city, who served as Bytown's city engineer. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the island served as a refuge for typhoid and smallpox patients to keep them isolated from the rest of the city, though the site had to be abandoned every spring due to flooding. Ottawa City Council chose the island in 1893 during that year's smallpox epid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horseshoe Island (Ontario)
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There are several islands named Horseshoe Island: *Horseshoe Island (Antarctica) *Horseshoe Island (Wisconsin) *Horseshoe Island, Bermuda *Horseshoe Island, Queensland Horseshoe Island is one of the South Wellesley Islands, on the Queensland side of the Gulf of Carpentaria The Gulf of Carpentaria (, ) is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miller's Island
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Brownell Island
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Green Island (Restoule Lake)
Green Island or Greene Island can refer to: Places Africa * Green Island (Egypt), in the Gulf of Suez * Green Island (Eritrea), in the Red Sea ( Gulf of Zula) Antarctica * Green Island (Berthelot Islands) Asia * Green Island, Hong Kong * Green Island, Taiwan * Green Island (Kerala), India * Green Island (Kuwait) * Qingdao, China * Ilha Verde, Macau Europe United Kingdom and Ireland * Green Island, Scotland, Enard Bay, Scotland * Green Island (Dorset), Poole Harbour, Dorset * , Isles of Scillies * Green Island, Jersey, Jersey, Channel Islands * Greenisland, County Antrim, Northern Ireland * Green Island, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland North America * Greenland Canada * Green Island (Catalina), Newfoundland and Labrador * Green Island (Fortune), Newfoundland and Labrador * Green Island (Rideau River), Ontario * Green Island (Severn Sound), in Lake Muskoka, Ontario * Green Island (Ottawa River), in Ontario * Greene Island (Lake Ontario), in Ontario * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dry Island (Ontario)
Dry Island is an inhabited island in Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross, Scotland, and part of the inner, inner Hebrides. Dry Island is translated from the Gaelic name for the Island "''Eilean Tioram''". Geography Dry Island is located on the small harbour of Badachro and sheltered by Eilean Horrisdale Eilean Horrisdale is an uninhabited island in Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross, Scotland. Geography Eilean Horrisdale is the largest island in Loch Gairloch. In front is the smaller, Eilean Tioram (dry island), which is connected to the mainland by ..., the largest island in Loch Gairloch. It is connected to the mainland by a floating footbridge built in the 1990s. Next to Dry Island is the smaller Island, Sgeir Ghlas, which can be reached by foot during low tide or by boat. In 2011, the island was classified by the National Records of Scotland as one of 93 "inhabited islands in Scotland with usual residents, including those joined to the mainland or to other islands by a bridge, ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almaguin Highlands
The Almaguin Highlands Region (colloquially known as Almaguin, also referred to as 'the Highlands') in Ontario, Canada, covers approximately comprising the eastern half of Parry Sound District. It is bounded by Muskoka in the south, and by Lake Nipissing and Nipissing District in the north. The eastern edge abuts the western boundary of Algonquin Provincial Park, whereas the western boundary of the Almaguin Highlands is generally regarded to be the mid east-west point of Parry Sound District. Originally derived from the words Algonquin, Magnetawan, and Seguin. the name Almaguin is now used to describe the marketing region of East Parry Sound. Subdivisions The region includes fifteen incorporated municipalities, three local service boards (LSB) across eight unincorporated geographic townships, and one unincorporated geographic township without a local services board, which can be grouped into three subregions. North Almaguin * Municipality of Callander * Township of Nipiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parry Sound District
Parry Sound District is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. Its boundaries are District of Muskoka to the south, the Sudbury District to the north-northwest, the French River and Lake Nipissing in the north, Nipissing District and North Bay in the north and east and parts of Algonquin Park in the northeast. In 2016, the population was 42,824. The land area is ; the population density was . It is geographically in Southern Ontario, but the Ontario and federal governments administer it as part of Northern Ontario. Like other census divisions in Northern Ontario, it does not have an incorporated county, regional municipality, or district municipality level of government but instead serves as a purely territorial division like the other districts of Northern Ontario. Instead of an upper tier of municipal administration, all government services in the district are provided either by the local municipalities or by the provincial government itself. Some communiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
