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Nipissing is an incorporated (political) township in Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada. [1] [4] It is on Lake Nipissing and is part of the Almaguin Highlands region. Nipissing was surveyed between 1874 and 1881, and was incorporated in 1888. Among the first settlers in the area were the Chapman and Beatty families.
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.
The Municipality of Callander (formerly the Township of North Himsworth) is a township in central Ontario, Canada, located at the southeast end of Lake Nipissing in the Almaguin Highlands region of the District of Parry Sound. The municipality is located on Callander Bay, just south of North Bay.
The Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board (known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 30B prior to 1999 [2]) administers separate school Catholic education for an area of 11,653 km 2 (4,499 sq mi) in central Ontario, Canada. Its headquarters are in North Bay. [citation needed]
Simcoe County, in particular the former Wendake area near Nottawasaga Bay, was the site of the earliest French exploration and settlement of Ontario; they were the first Europeans in the area. Several historic sites, including Carhagouha and Sainte-Marie among the Hurons , mark the earliest known contacts between the area's traditional Huron ...
Parry Sound—Muskoka is a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Ontario. The riding was once held by Ontario Premier Ernie Eves, and, by Norm Miller, son of former Premier Frank Miller. The district, which has existed since 1999, has identical boundaries to those of the federal district of Parry Sound-Muskoka.
BATTLE CREEK — Friday may have been Groundhog Day, but prairie dogs were all anyone could talk about at Binder Park Zoo. Last fall, the zoo announced an opportunity for the public to name the ...
Parry Sound—Muskoka is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1949.. The riding consists of the Territorial District of Parry Sound (excluding the Town of Powassan, the townships of Nipissing and North Himsworth, and the part of the Town of Killarney contained in the district), the District Municipality of Muskoka ...