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Sombra–Marine City (Bluewater) Ferry. Coordinates: 42.7123°N 82.4835°W. The Sombra – Marine City (Bluewater) Ferry was a ferry service that crossed the St. Clair River, connecting Sombra, Ontario in Canada on the eastern bank with Marine City, Michigan in the United States on the western bank.
The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The Maritimes had a population of 1,899,324 in 2021, which makes up 5.1% of Canada's population. [ 1] Together with Canada's easternmost province, Newfoundland and Labrador, the ...
A 1967 flyer for Marineland, using the older name "Marineland and Game Farm". Marineland (official name Marineland of Canada Inc.) is a themed zoo and amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. It is operating on a reduced scale while it is slated for redevelopment. No amusement rides are operating, and all land animals have been ...
The Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents were designated as the first Marine Protected Area of Canada in 2003. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) (French: zones de protection marine) are zones within Canadian waters where the marine environment receives a high level of environmental protection. Marine Protected Areas are governed by the Oceans Act of 1996 ...
Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area ( French: Aire marine nationale de conservation du Lac-Supérieur) is a National Marine Conservation Area (NMCA) on the north shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, and is a unit of the national park system. Established on September 1, 2015, [2] it is the largest freshwater marine protected area in ...
The Kingston Marine Museum was incorporated by letters patent on August 29, 1975 with objectives to collect, conserve and display artifacts related to Great Lakes marine history, shipping and shipbuilding, construct an exhibition area for special exhibitions of both marine and non-marine character, encourage public participation in events and activities, develop a marine resource centre of ...
Lake Simcoe. / 44.43667°N 79.33917°W / 44.43667; -79.33917. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Simcoe is a lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the fourth-largest lake wholly in the province, after Lake Nipigon, Lac Seul, and Lake Nipissing. [ 6] At the time of the first European contact in the 17th century, the lake was ...
The Toronto Maritime Museum was established in 1957 as the Marine Museum of Upper Canada. It was opened by its patron Earl Mountbatten of Burma on August 26, 1959. [1] It was first located in the historic Stanley Barracks ' Officers' Quarters on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition . In 1964, it was proposed to display a selection of ...