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Many one-story bungalows have added second floors, and many shops have been converted to more upscale shops. Canada's only borough, East York was semi-autonomous within the greater municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. In 1998, Metro Toronto and its constituent municipalities were dissolved and replaced by the new "megacity" of Toronto.
Length. 15 km (9.3 mi) The Canard River is a river in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada which drains into the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy between the communities of Canard and Starr's Point. It is known for its fertile river banks and extensive dyke land agriculture.
Kangiqsualujjuaq (/ kænˌdʒɪksuˈæluːdʒuæk /; French: [kɑ̃dʒiksɥalydʒɥak]) [4] is an Inuit village located at the mouth of the George River on the east coast of Ungava Bay in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. Its population was 956 as of the 2021 census. The settlement's original name, Fort Severight, honoured John Severight, a North West ...
The island "Île aux Chats" can be seen near the centre. The Rivière des Prairies (pronounced [ʁivjɛʁ de pʁɛʁi]; lit. 'River of the Prairies'), called the Back River in English, [1][2][3][4] is a delta channel of the Ottawa River in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The Kanien'kehá:ka called it Skowanoti, meaning "River behind the island". [5]
19,100 km 2 (7,400 sq mi) The French River (French: Rivière des Français, Ojibwe: Emitigoozhii-ziibi[1]) is a river in Central Ontario, Canada. It flows 110 kilometres (68 mi) from Lake Nipissing southwest to Georgian Bay. [2] The river largely follows the boundary between the Parry Sound District and the Sudbury District, and in most ...
The Back River, formerly Backs River[5] (Dogrib: Thlewechodyeth, [6] Inuktitut: Haningayok, [7] or Great Fish River), is the 20th longest Canadian river and is located in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. It rises at an unnamed lake in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories and flows more than 974 km (605 mi) [8] mostly ...
Bois Blanc Island, commonly referred to as Boblo Island, is an island in the Detroit River on the Canadian side of the border and is part of Amherstburg, Ontario. The island is about 4.0 kilometres (2.5 mi) long, 0.80 km (0.5 mi) wide and 110 hectares (272 acres) in size. The main northbound shipping channel of the Detroit River currently lies ...
The Mississippi River is a tributary of the Ottawa River in Eastern Ontario, Canada which has no relation with the Mississippi River in the United States. [1][2][3][4][5] It is 200 kilometres (120 mi) in length from its source at Mackavoy Lake, [1] has a drainage area of 4,450 square kilometres (1,720 sq mi), and has a mean discharge of 40 ...