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The United States Lakes Survey was created on 31 March 1841 by an act of Congress, appropriating $15,000 for a United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers led survey of the Great Lakes. [1] William G. Williams was appointed the first commander of the survey.
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).
Detroit Skyline at Dusk A view of Buffalo, New York, taken from Outer Harbor Niagara Falls, New York from Skylon Tower Aerial view of Ashtabula, Ohio Toledo, Ohio skyline The Erie Skyline on Lake Erie The Chicago Skyline on Lake Michigan Milwaukee from the harbor River waterfront in Manistee, Michigan Aerial view of St. Joseph, Michigan The city's Financial District in Downtown Toronto at night.
The Great Lakes megalopolis consists of a bi-national group of metropolitan areas in North America largely in the Great Lakes region.It extends from the Midwestern United States in the south and west to western Pennsylvania and Western New York in the east and northward through Southern Ontario into southwestern Quebec in Canada.
Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...
The Great Lakes islands consist of about 35,000 islands (scattered throughout Great Lakes), created by uneven glacial activity in the Great Lakes Basin in Canada and the United States. The largest of these is Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron in the province of Ontario.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division (LRD) is one of the eight permanent divisions of the Army organization, providing civil works and military water resource services/infrastructure. It also supports economically viable and environmentally sustainable watershed management and water resources development ...
Quebec, a portion of whose lands drain into the St. Lawrence Basin, is a signatory to the Great Lakes Charter of 1985, the 2001 Charter Annex, and the Agreements of 2005. [2] While not a part of the Great Lakes Basin, Quebec's position along the Saint Lawrence Seaway makes it a partner in water resource management with Ontario and the eight US ...