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The St. Lawrence Parks Commission (French: Commission des parcs du Saint-Laurent) is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario that manages parks and heritage sites along the shoreline of the St. Lawrence River in southeastern Ontario.
Ontario Parks is a branch of the Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks (MECP). Until recently, Ontario Parks as a whole was under the mandate of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF). The history of Ontario's provincial parks stretches for over 100 years. Here are some of the milestones from the past century plus: [3]
Adjacent to the United States' Isle Royale National Park and several Ontario provincial parks, Lake Superior NMCA forms part of the world's largest freshwater reserve. [72] Saguenay–St. Lawrence † Quebec: 8 June 1998 1,245 km 2 (481 sq mi) [73]
Earl Rowe Provincial Park is an Ontario Parks recreational park located in Adjala–Tosorontio near Alliston, Ontario.. The idea for the park was spearheaded by Rowe when he was area MP and began with the first land purchase in 1957 and additional farm land before it opened in 1964, [3] the now 312.42 ha (772.0 acres) park was named for former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario William Earl Rowe. [4]
Example of a National Park Passport Stamp for the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Passport to Your National Parks is a program through which ink stamps can be acquired at no cost at park visitor centers and ranger stations at nearly all of the 433 units of the United States National Park System and most of the National Park Service's affiliated areas.
Bruce Peninsula National Park is a national park on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada.Located on a part of the Niagara Escarpment, the park comprises 156 square kilometres and is one of the largest protected areas in southern Ontario, forming the core of UNESCO's Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve. [2]
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). The park is contiguous with several smaller, administratively separate provincial parks that protect important rivers in the area, resulting in a larger total protected ...
Arrowhead Provincial Park is located north of Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, and is part of the Ontario Parks system. A portion of the shoreline of Glacial Lake Algonquin is visible in the park. [5] During the winter, a 1.3-kilometre (0.81 mi) man-made skating trail winds through the forest. [6]