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Barker's Bush is a forest located in the Grand River watershed near the banks of the Nith River in the community of Paris, County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. The bush is directly north and west of Lion's Park, and less than one kilometre northwest of the confluence of the Nith and the Grand rivers.
Paris (2021 population, 14,956 [2]) is a community located in the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. It lies just northwest from the city of Brantford at the spot where the Nith River empties into the Grand River. Paris was voted "the Prettiest Little Town in Canada" by Harrowsmith Magazine. [3] The town was established in 1850.
The Nith River is flat water with a few riffles, but rain and snowmelt can significantly increase the flow rate. [1] In the early spring the maximum flow rate reaches a median value of 30 and mean of 40, but commonly exceeds 200 m 3 /s, causing major flooding in the flat regions upstream such as in and around New Hamburg.
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An explorers' map in 1669 showed the River as being called the Tinaatuoa or Riviere Rapide. A 1775 map shows it as Urse, a name which also appeared on a 1708 map and on Bellin’s Carte des Lacs of 1744. The d’Anville map of 1755 shows the river Tinaatuoa but adds the words Grande River at its mouth. Other 18th Century names were Oswego and ...
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The river became known as Missinnihe (Eastern Ojibwa: "trusting creek" [5]) to the Mississaugas First Nation who met annually with white traders there. To the First Nations, the river was "held in reverential estimation as the favourite resort of their ancestors" [6] and the band, which ranged from Long Point on Lake Erie to the Rouge River on Lake Ontario, became known as the Credit River ...