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Explore Ontario with its fabulous scenery, modern cities, museums, sport venues and the five great lakes: Lake Superior, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. The sheer size of Ontario is daunting. It is Canada’s second largest province, covering over one million square miles and stretching all the way from Great Lakes on the US boarder to the frozen shore of Hudson Bay. Northern Ontario is relatively inaccessible, but this wild and stunningly beautiful region of turbulent rivers, deep forest, and Arctic tundra can be reached by air, and by the occasional scenic road and railroad. Much of the north is also sparsely populated, in striking contract to the fertile lands farther south and bordering Lake Ontario, which have attracted many thousands of immigrants. Ontario is the province with the largest population over 12.5 million people, or roughly one third of Canada’s population.
Getting Around Ontario - Among several highways skirting the northern shore of Lake Ontario, the most important are Hwy. 401, heading east from Toronto to Montreal, and the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW), running south from Toronto to Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls, Toronto, and Ottawa, are connected by bus and VIA Rail. Traveling north from Toronto, Hwy. 400 becomes part of the Trans-Canada Hwy. which travels west to Lake Superior. Trains and buses also cover many northerly routes.
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