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White Otter Lake
White Otter Lake is a lake in Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. See also *List of lakes in Ontario *White Otter Castle White Otter Castle is an elaborate 3-storey log house built on the shore of White Otter Lake, about south of Ignace, Ontario, Canada, by James Alexander "Jimmy" McOuat. The "Castle" is a sturdy log house which stands 3 storeys tall (29 feet), wi ... References National Resources Canada Lakes of Kenora District {{NorthernOntario-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignace
Ignace is a township in the Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located at Highway 17 (Trans Canada Highway) and Secondary Highway 599, and on the Canadian Pacific Railway between Thunder Bay and Kenora. It is on the shore of Agimak Lake, and as of 2016, the population of Ignace was 1,202. The town was named after Ignace Mentour by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1879. Ignace Mentour was the key Indigenous guide through this region during Fleming's 1872 railway survey, recorded in George Monro Grant's journal of the survey, ''Ocean to Ocean''. Mentour had also served with Sir George Simpson in Simpson's final years as governor of Rupert's Land. During Ignace's early days, there was a settlement of railway boxcars used by the English residents there called "Little England". Although Ignace was incorporated in 1908, it was something of a latecomer to some modern conveniences, such as rotary dial telephone, which did not arrive in the town until 1956. Forestry and touris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenora District
Kenora District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The district seat is the City of Kenora. It is geographically the largest division in Ontario: at , it covers 38 percent of the province's area, making it larger than Newfoundland and Labrador, and slightly smaller than Sweden or roughly the land size of California. Kenora District also has the lowest population density of any of Ontario's census divisions (it ranks 37th out of 50 by total population). The district was created in 1907 from parts of Rainy River District. The northern part (north of the Albany River) only became part of Ontario in 1912 (transferred from the Northwest Territories).''The Ontario Boundaries Extension Act'', S.C. 1912 (CA), 2 Geo. V, c. 40. The separate Patricia District upon transfer, it was in 1937 annexed to Kenora District and known sometimes as the Patricia Portion. [...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] |
List Of Lakes In Ontario
This is an incomplete list of lakes in Ontario, a province of Canada. There are over 250,000 lakes in Ontario, constituting around 20% of the world's fresh water supply. Larger lake statistics This is a list of lakes of Ontario with an area larger than . # * 24 Mile Lake A B C D E F G *Gananoque Lake *Garson Lake *Gathering Lake *Gibson Lake (other), multiple lakes *Gillies Lake *Gloucester Pool *Go Home Lake * Golden Lake * Gordon Lake *Ghost Lake * Gould Lake (other), several lakes * Green Lake * Grundy Lake *Guelph Lake *Gull Lake (Ontario) * Gullrock Lake *Gunter Lake H * Halls Lake (Haliburton County) * Hammer Lake * Head Lake (Kawartha Lakes) * Head Lake (Haliburton County) * Heart Lake * Herbert Lake *Holden Lake * Lake Huron * Horseshoe Lakemultiple lakes I * Inn Lake * Indian Lake * Innis Lake * Irwin Lake *Ivanhoe Lake J * Jack Lake * Jeff Lake *Lake Joseph * Jules Lake *Jumping Cariboo Lake K * Kabinakagami Lake *Lake Kagawo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Otter Castle
White Otter Castle is an elaborate 3-storey log house built on the shore of White Otter Lake, about south of Ignace, Ontario, Canada, by James Alexander "Jimmy" McOuat. The "Castle" is a sturdy log house which stands 3 storeys tall (29 feet), with a turret extending up an additional floor (41 feet). The main part of the building measures 24 by 28 feet, while an attached kitchen area adds a further 14 by 20 feet to the floorplan. McOuat built his "castle" single-handedly, beginning in 1903 when he was 51, and finally completing it in 1915. He felled and cut all of the red pine logs himself, and hoisted the finished, dovetailed beams (some of them weighing as much as 1600 lbs) into place by means of simple block and tackle. James Alexander McOuat was born in Chatham, Argenteuil County, Lower Canada (Québec), on Jan 17, 1855. He was the youngest son of David McOuat and Christian McGibbon, both of whom were born in Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
