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Meaford is a municipality in Grey County, Ontario, Canada located on Nottawasaga Bay, a sub-basin of Georgian Bay and Owen Sound Bay. The municipality's seal and motto reflect its heritage as a place of apple orchards , but in the 21st century the area has partly switched to weekend homes, seasonal homes, and lakeside tourism .
Ontario: Country: Canada: The Meaford Formation is a geologic formation in Ontario. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period. See also
Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]
The Georgian Bay Formation is a geologic formation in Michigan and Ontario. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period . The type locality of the formation is on East Meaford Creek (previously called Workman Creek), south shore of Nottawasaga Bay , Georgian Bay .
Grey County is a county in the province of Ontario. The county is located in the Southwestern Ontario region, and is a part of the Georgian Triangle. At the time of the 2021 Canadian census the population of the county was 100,905. [1] Owen Sound is the county seat and the largest city in Grey County.
In 1942, the Department of National Defence purchased 80 km 2 (20,000 acres) of private lands along the Georgian Bay in the St. Vincent Township. The southern edge of this property is 5 km (3.1 mi) northwest of the town of Meaford and its western boundary is 15 km (9.3 mi) northeast of the city of Owen Sound.
Leith is an unincorporated community in Ontario, Canada, named after Leith, Scotland. It is located on the eastern shore of the Owen Sound Bay, an inlet on the south shore of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron. Owen Sound Bay is a broad valley that cuts through the Niagara Escarpment. The valley preceded the last great Ice Age, but was broadened by the ...
Balaclava is a community in the municipality of Meaford in Grey County, Ontario, Canada.It is about 17 kilometres (11 mi) northwest of the centre of Meaford and 18 kilometres (11 mi) northeast of the city of Owen Sound, about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) inland of Owen Sound on Georgian Bay, Lake Huron.