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Patterson Township is a geographic township in central Ontario, Canada.As it is unincorporated, it is located in the Central Unorganized portion of Parry Sound District.The township is located where the French River flows from Lake Nipissing, and then stretches south until it meets Pringle Township in the south.
The Nipissing River is a river in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin in the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The river is entirely within Algonquin Provincial Park , and is a left tributary of the Petawawa River .
In the Village of South River on the shores of the waterway is located the Tom Thomson Park, the site in which Thomson would pull his canoe from the river and board the train bound for his studio and clients in Southern Ontario. The Municipality of Powassan organizes a canoe race every summer along the portion of the river within its boundaries ...
Northeastern Ontario consists of the districts of Algoma, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timiskaming, Nipissing and Manitoulin. For some purposes, Parry Sound District and Muskoka District Municipality are treated as part of Northeastern Ontario although they are geographically in Central Ontario. These two divisions are coloured in green on the map.
Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and quasi-administrative region of the Canadian province of Ontario, the other primary region being Southern Ontario.Most of the core geographic region is located on part of the Superior Geological Province of the Canadian Shield, a vast rocky plateau located mainly north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River, Lake Nipissing, and the ...
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.
The Rosseau-Nipissing Road, also called the Nipissing Road, encouraged settlement in what is now Parry Sound. The project was authorized in 1864, with surveying done from 1864 to 1865. Construction began in 1866, and the road was open by 1873.
Highway 654 begins immediately south of the community of Nipissing at a junction with Highway 534. This intersection, just north of the Wolfe Creek crossing on Highway 534, features a stop sign for traffic on Highway 654. [3] The highway travels north from there through Nipissing, crossing the South River and passing the Nipissing Township ...