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Tay Canal: Ontario: 9.8 km (6.1 mi) 2 27 m (90 ft) Tay River: Lower Rideau Lake: 1891 Currently operated as a part of the Rideau Canal: Trent-Severn Waterway: Ontario: 386 km (240 mi) 44 26 m (84 ft) Georgian Bay Bay of Quinte 1833 Welland Canal: Ontario: 43 km (27 mi) 8 230 m (740 ft) Lake Ontario (St. Catharines)
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Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]
The Thousand Islands Border Crossing connects the towns of Alexandria Bay, New York, and Ivy Lea, Ontario, on the Canada–US border. The crossing is via the international span of the Thousand Islands Bridge. The Thousand Islands bridge, which was completed in 1938, is actually a system of five bridges and the island roadways connecting them.
Minnesota's Boundary with Canada. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-153-0. Luukkonen, Larry (2007). Between the Waters: Tracing the Northwest Trail from Lake Superior to the Mississippi. Duluth: Dovetailed Press. ISBN 978-0-9765890-4-4. Morse, Eric W (1979). Fur Trade Routes of Canada. Minoqua, WI: NorthWord Press.
Canada operated a station about a mile north of the border 1904–1905 and closer to the border 1914–1923, 1926, 1931–1941 and from the mid-1940s. [26] In the 1970s, both the US and Canada constructed new border facilities to better accommodate regular recreational traffic.
It has a land area of 872.04 square kilometres (336.70 sq mi) and a population of 17,865 inhabitants in the Canada 2011 Census. [4] Its largest community is the parish of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel . Les Chenaux is one of the few regional county municipalities in Quebec that does not constitute its own census division ; instead, it is grouped ...
The international border between Canada and the United States, with Yukon on one side and Alaska on the other, circa 1900-1923 [1]. The borders of Canada include: . To the south and west: An international boundary with the United States, forming the longest shared border in the world, 8,893 km (5,526 mi); [2] (Informally referred as the 49th parallel north which makes up the boundary at parts.