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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 ...
First Nations in Ontario constitute many nations. Common First Nations ethnicities in the province include the Anishinaabe , Haudenosaunee , and the Cree . In southern portions of this province, there are reserves of the Mohawk , Cayuga , Onondaga , Oneida , Seneca and Tuscarora .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. List of communities in Ontario, Canada The following is a list of unincorporated and informal communities in the province of Ontario, Canada. These communities are not independent communities, these are usually a part of a township for the district, within a county. In non-urban areas ...
Nunavut: "Our land" in Inuktitut. Ontario: Derived from the Huron word onitariio meaning "beautiful lake", or kanadario meaning "sparkling" or "beautiful" water. Quebec: from the Míkmaq word kepék, meaning "strait" or "narrows". [7] Saskatchewan: Derived from the Cree name for the Saskatchewan River, kisiskāciwani-sīpiy, meaning "swift ...
Indigenous mapping is a practice where Indigenous communities own, control, access, and possess both the geographic information and mapping processes. It is based on Indigenous data sovereignty [1] [2] /intellectual property. Indigenous cartographers tend to employ different strategies than colony-focused or empire-focused cartographers.
Ontario Parks and protected areas statistics Type Number Area % land area Hectares Acres Provincial parks 341 8,278,063 20,455,540 7.69% Conservation reserves 295 1,514,147 3,741,540 1.4% Protected areas 9 1,226,016 3,029,550 1.1% Wilderness areas 28 2,590 6,400 <0.1% Total 662 11,020,284 27,231,710 10.29%
The Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation, also known as Many Rivers Joining-Human Beings, [3] is a First Nations band government located in Ontario, Canada.Sagamok's culture and language is Anishinabek and is made up of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Pottawatomi bands.
The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.