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Mile: 0 Population: 2,615,060
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Mile: 98 Population: 600
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Mile: 276 Population: 3,276
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Mile: 100 Population: 1,750
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Mile: 159
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Mile: 55 Population: 12,996
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This area is famous for its mineral hot springs. The Wallaceburg R Eitself on its sense of humour.

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most populous province. Appropriately, Toronto is the the head of Lake Couchiching is popular with cottagers, rugged and exposed bedrock of the Canadian Shield played an important role as part of the historic canoe On the Manitoba side is the undeveloped forest and North American i fur trade, it was a resting area for accumulated salt in adjacent Little Manitou Lake gives Thus thathe E
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towers dominate the skyline along the shores of Lake unstable soil with a high water content. the population speak English, 44% speak French and canoeing and fishing. Its 200 lakes, some of which River and Lake Manitoba. Today, the major industry is museums L Afor a town of its size.
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Ontario—a spectacular view best experienced from the 4% speak other languages). were formed by meteor craters, offer some of the food processing, largely due to its location, which is 90
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CN Tower’s SkyPod observation deck, which stands best northern pike, perch and lake trout fishing in surrounded by some of the richest farmland in Manitoba. ington
147 stories high. The train boards at Union Station,
Mile: 150 Population: 6,191 06 GOGAMA
Western Canada.
Mile: 191 Population: 222,189 Leam
19 UNITY
immediately across from the imposing Royal York Hotel. Parry Sound marks the eastern edge of the rugged Mile: 86 Population: 450 09 ARMSTRONG Founded in the early 1880s as a temperance colony, Mile: 57 Population: 2,389
The Harbourfront, as well as Yonge and Bay streets are Canadian Shield, that region of billion-year-old Gogama is typical of the small, relatively isolated Mile: 243 Population: 1,216 14 MANITOBA–SASKATCHEWAN BORDER this city is named after the abundance of delicious The community is known for its local production of salt
just a few blocks away. exposed bedrock that covers half of Canada, between
the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay, and parts of the
settlements along this section of the railway that were
created to service locomotives and placed at
This town is located at the north end of magnificent
Lake Nipigon, which spans 96 kilometres from north
12 WINNIPEG
Mile: 0 Population: 663,617
Mile: 213
The Canadian is near the midpoint of its
purple berries that are found along the banks of the
Saskatchewan River. Saskatoon is a Canadian leader
mined 1,127 metres below ground.

northern United States. approximately 240-kilometre intervals. to south and 64 kilometres at its widest point. The Manitoba’s capital was originally the hub of the Canadian transcontinental journey. in the high technology and mining industries, and is
area offers some of the best fly-in fishing and hunting fur trade, given its strategic location at the junction of home to the University of Saskatchewan. The 20 SASKATCHEWAN –ALBERTA BORDER
Mile: 101
in the region. the Red, Assiniboine and Seine rivers. Today, The Forks Ukrainian Museum of Canada is a tribute to the
04 GREATER SUDBURY
Mile: 262 Population: 160,274
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Mile: 296 Population: 1,050 is a downtown meeting place that includes some of 15 MELVILLE
Mile: 280 Population: 4,517 province’s early settlers, and the influence this This provincial boundary also marks the division
between the Central and Mountain time zones.
Winnipeg’s best restaurants, shopping and live community has had is evidenced in the heritage
Whether due to a volcanic eruption or the impact of
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The community started as a railway town but the major
industry today is wood, as evidenced by the piles of
10 SIOUX LOOKOUT
Mile: 138 Population: 5,037 entertainment. The Winnipeg Art Gallery houses the The community is named for Charles Melville Hays,
President of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad Company,
architecture of the city.
world’s largest collection of Inuit sculpture and art.
rich abundance of mineral resources. The city is known logs and the pulp and plywood mills that border the Located on the English River/Lac Seul waterways, the Winnipeg is home to over 50 ethnic communities. In who died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
as the nickel capital of Canada. At 381 metres high, the railway tracks. community is a magnet for sport fishermen and outdoor celebration of this diversity, the city holds its annual
INCO smokestack pierces the skyline. enthusiasts as well as a centre for the pulp industry. Folklorama, spotlighting the culinary traditions and
cultural activities of local communities.
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