Ontario

Bruce Peninsula

• Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/bruce/index_e.asp
• Location: Tip of the Bruce Peninsula between Lake Hiron and Georgian Bay
• Area: 155 km² (60 mi²)
• Proclaimed: 1987
• Historical:
  1. Niagara Escarpment declared a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1990.
• Features:
  1. A one-hectare permanent forest monitoring plot
  2. The profusion of species of orchids
  3. About half the world's dwarf lake iris
  4. Most of Canada's stock of Indian plantain
  5. The Bruce Trail

Fathom Five National Marine Park

• Website: http://canadianparks.com/ontario/ffivemp/index.htm
• Location: Twenty islands to the north and east of the Bruce Peninsula
• Area: 130 km² (50 mi²) of surface water
• Proclaimed: 1987
• Historical:
  1. Created where the Niagara escarpment dips underwater off the Bruce Peninsula
• Features:
  1. Dramatic escarpment topography
  2. Collection of twenty-one historic shipwrecks
  3. Limestone cliffs, caves, and tapered columns of Flowerpot Island
  4. Submerged waterwall

Georgian Bay Islands

• Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/georg/index_e.asp
• Location: 59 islands of a 30,000-island archipelago along 50 kilometers (31 miles) of the eastern shoreline of Georgian Bay
• Area: 25.6 km² (9.9mi²)
• Proclaimed: 1929
• Historical:
  1. Archaeology digs on Beausoleil Island provide a 5,000-year record of its use as a site for fishing, trade, and travel.
  2. An Ojibwe settlement lasted here until 1856
• Features:
  1. Access by boat only

Point Pelee

• Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/index_e.asp
• Location: Southeast of Windsor, jutting into Lake Erie, the most southern point on the Canadian mainland
• Area: 20 km² (8 mi²)
• Proclaimed: 1918
• Historical:
  1. Native settlements from 600 CE found near the marsh
• Features:
  1. Part of the small Canadian Carolinian Zone
  2. Many species of plants and birds
• See also: http://www.innvista.com/science/ecology/parks/pelee.htm

Pukaskwa

• Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pukaskwa/index_e.asp
• Location: Along northeast coast of Lake Superior, north of Sault Ste. Marie
• Area: 1878 km² (725 mi²)
• Proclaimed: 1983
• Historical:
  1. Area visited by Étienne Brûléin 1618
• Features:
  1. Mysterious shallow rock structures -- the Pukaskwa Pits -- fashioned by humans on the beaches
  2. Canadian Shield landscape

St. Lawrence Islands

• Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/lawren/index_e.asp
• Location: In the western end of the St. Lawrence River, near Kingston
• Area: 9 km² (3.5 mi²)
• Proclaimed: 1914
• Historical:
  1. Evidence found of summer migrations thousands of years ago
• Features:
  1. More than 20 islands and about 90 islets
  2. Pictographs, painted on a shoreline cliff
  3. Preserved hull of a British gunboat from the War of 1812

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