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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 ...
Lake Superior magazine article that includes some history of the area; Photos of Thunder Bay including the Sleeping Giant Provincial Park and the Sibley Peninsula. Ontario Parks Sleeping Giant Background Information (2003) Queen's Printer for Ontario. ISBN 0-7794-3989-9. Retrieved on 26 September 2007.
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 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.
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 property was purchased by the SGPA in 1933, during the Great Depression, for $30,000; the money was raised through private donations and the property became the Sleeping Giant State Park. [14] [A] Sleeping Giant State Park was created in 1924, when the SGPA donated 600 acres to the Park and Forest Commission. The state added an additional ...
M. MacGregor Point Provincial Park; Magnetawan River Provincial Park; Makobe-Grays River Provincial Park; Manitou Islands Provincial Nature Reserve; Mara Provincial Park (Ontario)