Ontario Travel Guide
The one million square kilometres of Ontario, Canada's
second-largest province, stretch all the way from the St Lawrence River and the Great
Lakes to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. Some two-thirds of this territory - all of the
north and most of the centre - is occupied by the forests and rocky outcrops of the
Canadian Shield, whose ancient, Precambrian rocks were brought to the surface by the
glaciers that gouged the continent during the last ice age. The glaciers produced a
flattened landscape studded with thousands of lakes and it was the local Iroquois who
first coined the name "Ontario", literally "glittering waters". The Iroquois
- as well as their Algonquin neighbours to the north - hunted and fished the
Canadian Shield, but their agricultural activities were confined to the more fertile and
hospitable parts of southern Ontario, in which the vast majority of the province's ten
million people are now concentrated.
The first Europeans to make regular contact ...more
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