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Upper Madawaska River Provincial Park is a waterway-class provincial park on the Madawaska River in the municipality of South Algonquin in Nipissing District, ...
The Madawaska River is a tributary of the Ottawa River in the St. Lawrence River drainage basin in Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] The river is 230 km (143 mi) long and drains an area of 8,470 km 2 (3,270 sq mi). [3] Its name comes from an Algonquian band of the region known as "Matouweskarini", meaning "people of the shallows".
Upper Madawaska River Provincial Park 45°29′36″N 78°05′55″W / 45.4933°N 78.0986°W / 45.4933; -78 West Sandy Island Provincial Nature Reserve
The hills stretch from Opeongo Lake in Algonquin Park in the west, along the Madawaska and Opeongo Rivers, towards the Opeongo Colonization Road, and extending towards the Deacon Escarpment (north of Killaloe, Ontario in Renfrew County), Bonnechere, Ontario, and Dacre in the east.
The communities of Aylen Lake, Cross Lake, Gunters, Madawaska, McKenzie Lake, [7] Murchison, Opeongo, Wallace and Whitney are in South Algonquin. [4] [5] It also includes the geographic townships of Airy, Dickens, Lyell, Murchison, and Sabine, with the exception of a triangle, the northwest corner, of Airy Township that is part of Algonquin Provincial Park.
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
Lower Madawaska River Provincial Park is a waterway-class provincial park on the Madawaska River in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. The park includes the shores on both sides of the Madawaska River from Latchford Bridge to Griffith. A non-operating park, it offers neither facilities nor services.
The Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway, or OA&PS, is a historic railway that operated in central and eastern Ontario, Canada, from 1897 to 1959.It was for a time the busiest railway route in Canada, [1] carrying both timber and wood products from today's Algonquin Provincial Park areas, as well as up to 40% of the grain traffic from the Canadian west from Depot Harbour at Parry Sound ...