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The communities of Aylen Lake, Cross Lake, Gunters, Madawaska, McKenzie Lake, [7] Murchison, Opeongo, Wallace and Whitney are in South Algonquin. [4] [5] It also includes the geographic townships of Airy, Dickens, Lyell, Murchison, and Sabine, with the exception of a triangle, the northwest corner, of Airy Township that is part of Algonquin Provincial Park.
The Whitney and Opeongo Railway (W&OR) was a logging railway in Ontario, Canada. It ran from Opeongo Lake to Whitney, where it connected to the Canada Atlantic Railway (CAR), running a total distance of about 14 miles (23 km). It opened in 1902 and closed in the 1920s with the end of major logging operations in the area.
The Algonquins of Ontario Settlement Area covers 36,000 square kilometers of land under Aboriginal title in eastern Ontario, home to more than 1.2 million people. [1]The Algonquins of Ontario comprise the First Nations of Pikwakanagan, Bonnechere, Greater Golden Lake, Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini (Bancroft), Mattawa/North Bay, Ottawa, Shabot Obaadjiwan (Sharbot Lake), Snimikobi (Ardoch) and ...
Algonquin Provincial Park is an Ontario provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River, mostly within the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District. Established in 1893, it is the oldest provincial park in Canada. [3] Additions since its creation have increased the park to its current size of about 7,653 km 2 (2,955 sq mi ...
Whitby is a town in Durham Region in Ontario, Canada.Whitby is located in Southern Ontario 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of Ajax and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Oshawa, on the north shore of Lake Ontario and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region.
Sir James Pliny Whitney KCMG KC (October 2, 1843 – September 25, 1914) was a Canadian politician and lawyer in the province of Ontario.He served as Conservative member of the legislature for Dundas in Eastern Ontario from 1888 and as the sixth premier of Ontario from 1905 until his death in 1914.
The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, or OA&PS, is a historic railway that operated in central and eastern Ontario, Canada, from 1897 to 1959.It was for a time the busiest railway route in Canada, [1] carrying both timber and wood products from today's Algonquin Provincial Park areas, as well as up to 40% of the grain traffic from the Canadian west from Depot Harbour at Parry Sound ...
Madawaska Lake (Freymond) Water Aerodrome (TC LID: CMW5) is located 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) southwest of Whitney, Ontario, Canada. References