Brantford
Brantford is named for Captain Joseph Brant, the Loyalist Mohawk chief who brought members of the Six Nations Confederacy into Canada after the American Revolution....
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Cottage Country
Outcroppings of pink-and-gray granite mark the rustic area in the Canadian Shield known to locals as Cottage Country. Drumlins of conifer and deciduous forest punctuate 100,000 freshwater lakes formed...
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Hamilton
Hamilton is Canada's steel capital—not exactly the sort of city where you'd expect to find acres of gardens and exotic plants, a symphony orchestra, Ontario's third-largest art gallery, a modern...
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Heritage Highways
Most of Ontario's first French, English, and Loyalist settlers entered the province from the southeast. You can retrace some of their routes on southern Ontario's Heritage Highways. Highway 2, parallel...
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James Bay Frontier
This far northeastern region is called the James Bay Frontier. It runs from the tall pine forests north of Temagami to the lowlands of James and Hudson bays, then onward to the southern tip of the Arctic...
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Kitchener and Waterloo
Kitchener and Waterloo, which merge into one another for a combined population of 300,000, are usually referred to as K-W. Swiss-German Mennonites journeying from Pennsylvania in covered Conestoga wagons...
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London
Nicknamed Forest City, quiet and provincial London has more than 50,000 trees and 1,500 acres of parks. London is notable as one of the country's oldest cities. More than 200 years ago British officer...
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Manitoulin Island
Manitoulin, the world's largest freshwater island, sits at the top of Lake Huron. The island, with a total area of 2,800 square km (1,081 square mi), is ruggedly handsome, with granite outcrops, forests...
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Niagara Wine Region
Some of the Niagara Peninsula's 55 wineries are on the Niagara Parkway between Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake, or on Highway 55 from the Queen Elizabeth Way. As the quality of Ontario wines continues...
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Niagara-on-the-Lake
Since 1962 Niagara-on-the-Lake has been considered the southern outpost of fine summer theater in Ontario because of its acclaimed Shaw Festival. But it offers far more than Stratford, its older theatrical...
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Ottawa
Although Ottawa remains a government town, the growth of the high-tech sector in recent years has given the city, its restaurants, shops, and hotels a modern flavor. The city has festivals, parks, bicycle...
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Sault Ste. Marie
The history of Sault Ste. Marie largely stems from its location on the banks of the St. Mary's River and its rapids. The river was a natural east-west conduit from Lake Huron to Lake Superior and westward...
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St. Jacobs
The nostalgic charm of a bygone era and the flair of contemporary style blend gracefully in the villages of St. Jacobs and Elmira (10 km, or 6 mi, north of St. Jacobs via Route 86 and County Road 21) in...
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St. Joseph Island
St. Joseph Island is a sparsely settled bit of land about 24 km by 30 km (15 mi by 19 mi) in the mouth of the St. Mary's River, connected by causeway and bridge to the mainland. In spring the island is...
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Stratford
In July 1953, Alec Guinness, one of the world's greatest actors, joined with Tyrone Guthrie, probably the world's greatest Shakespearean director, beneath a hot, stuffy tent in a backward little town about...
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Sudbury
The mining town of Sudbury used to bear the brunt of frequent unkind jokes. After all, didn't the U.S. astronauts go there to train in the type of terrain they were likely to encounter on the moon? Today...
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Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay, the world's biggest freshwater port, has an extraordinary ethnic mix of 42 nationalities, including the largest Finnish population outside Finland. Gateway to the fabled country north of Lake...
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White River
This town is marked by a huge thermometer indicating 22°C (72°F) below zero and a sign that advises: "White River—coldest place in Canada." But it has another claim to fame as the actual...
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