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Aerial view of the Sleeping Giant View of Lake Superior and surrounding area from the Top of the Giant trail terminus. Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, established in 1944 as Sibley Provincial Park and renamed in 1988, is a 244-square-kilometre (94 sq mi) park located on the Sibley Peninsula in Northwestern Ontario, east of Thunder Bay.
As one moves southward along the shoreline toward Sawyer's Bay the Sleeping Giant starts to separate into its various sections. Most distinctly in the view from the cliffs at Sawyer's Bay the Giant appears to have an Adam's Apple. The formation is part of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. Its dramatic steep cliffs are among the highest in Ontario ...
Aerial view of the Sleeping Giant, the southernmost part of Sibley Peninsula. The Sibley Peninsula is a 52-kilometre (32 mi) long and 10-kilometre (6 mi) wide peninsula in Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior. It projects into the lake from Superior's north shore, and separates Thunder Bay to the west from Black Bay to the east. [1]
Sleeping Giant Provincial Park has an excellent exhibit in its visitor centre, detailing the structure and history of the mine. There is speculation that much silver remains to be recovered at this location, but attempts to reopen the mine in 1919 and the 1970s (reprocessing mine tailings) were not successful.
The Williams Mine started operation in 1985, and produced 445,320 ounces of gold from a 2.45 meter wide ore body. The Golden Giant Mine produced 446,858 ounces in 1994 from a quartz sericite schist host rock. The David Bell Mines produced 204,251 ounces in 1994. The Hemlo gold mines had produced more than 6,000,000 ounces of gold by 1992. [2]
The history of Ontario's provincial parks stretches for over 100 years. Here are some of the milestones from the past century plus: [3] 1893 – Algonquin Park is created as a public park and forest reservation, fish and game preserve, health resort and pleasure ground. 1894 – Rondeau becomes Ontario's second provincial park.
Six Mile Lake Provincial Park; Slate Islands Provincial Park; Sleeping Giant Provincial Park; Solace Provincial Park; Spanish River Provincial Park; St. Raphael Provincial Park; Steel River Provincial Park; Sturgeon River Provincial Park
There are four main types of protected areas in Ontario: Provincial parks: Areas containing significant natural and cultural features, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation, scientific research and environmental monitoring, and education.