Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lake Simcoe's name was given by John Graves Simcoe in 1793 in memory of his father, Captain John Simcoe. Captain Simcoe was born on 28 November 1710, in Staindrop, in County Durham, northeast England, and served as an officer in the Royal Navy, dying of pneumonia aboard his ship, HMS Pembroke, on 15 May 1759.
MapQuest offers online, mobile, business and developer solutions that help people discover and explore where they would like to go, how to get there and what to do along the way and at your destination.
Williston Lake: 1,761 km 2 (680 sq mi) British Columbia 30 30 Lac Seul: 1,657 km 2 (640 sq mi) Ontario 31 31 Gouin Reservoir: 1,570 km 2 (610 sq mi) Quebec 32 32 Yathkyed Lake: 1,449 km 2 (559 sq mi) Nunavut 33 33 Lake Claire: 1,436 km 2 (554 sq mi) Alberta 34 34 Cree Lake: 1,434 km 2 (554 sq mi) Saskatchewan 35 35 Lac la Ronge: 1,413 km 2 (546 ...
Barriere (/ b ə ˈ r ɪər / bə-REER) [4] is a district municipality in central British Columbia, Canada, located 66 km (41 mi) north of the larger city of Kamloops on Highway 5. It is situated at the confluence of the Barrière River (St́yelltsecwétkwe in Secwepemctsín ) [ 5 ] and North Thompson Rivers in the Central North Thompson Valley.
Barrie is situated on the traditional land of the Wendat and Anishinaabeg peoples. [11] At its inception, Barrie was an establishment of houses and warehouses at the foot of the Nine Mile Portage from Kempenfelt Bay to Fort Willow, an indigenous transportation route that existed centuries before Europeans arrived in Simcoe County. [11]
Seton Lake Road (Highway 40 west) – Gold Bridge: Unofficial Hwy 40 is unsigned: 301.58: 187.39: Bridge of the Twenty-Three Camels over the Fraser River: 302.31: 187.85: Highway 12 south – Lytton, Hope: Hwy 99 branches north; Duffey Lake Road north end: Thompson-Nicola 377.04: 234.28: Highway 97 – Prince George, 100 Mile House, Cache Creek ...
A scenic route through some of the province's most isolated areas, [2] the highway first gained designation as British Columbia Highway 37 in the year 1975. At that time, its southern terminus was at the community of New Hazelton on the BC Highway 16 (the Yellowhead Highway ).
The integration of the Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk systems resulted in two parallel north-south mainlines in Central Ontario for the new Canadian National Railway: one passing to the west of Lake Simcoe through Newmarket, Barrie, and Orillia on its way to Nipissing Junction, and another passing to the east of Lake Simcoe on its way to ...