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The Township of Muskoka Lakes is an area municipality of the District Municipality of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. It has a year-round population of 6,000 and a summer population of 34,000. The Muskoka District Municipality (more generally referred to as the District of Muskoka, or simply Muskoka) is a regional municipality in Central Ontario that extends from Georgian Bay in the west, to the northern tip of Lake Couchiching in the south, to the western border of Algonquin Provincial Park in...
Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th) - Land 917,741 km² - Water 158,654 km² (14. ...
Geography and economy
The township is located on Canadian Shield and thus is marked with outcrops of igneous rock and evergreen trees. Although inland from both Lake Huron's Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, the township contains the Muskoka Lakes consisting of Lake Muskoka, Lake Rosseau and Lake Joseph. Canadian Shield The Canadian Shield is a large craton in eastern and central Canada and adjacent portions of the United States, composed of bare rock dating to the Precambrian Era (between 4. ...
The Great Lakes from space; Lake Huron is the third from the left. ...
Georgian Bay is a large bay of Lake Huron, located in Ontario, Canada. ...
Lake Simcoe is a lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the fourth largest lake in the province. ...
Timber was initially the greatest economic attraction for the region. The soil is poor and rocky and consequently is not especially suited to agriculture.
As the resource industries dried up, the area soon latched onto tourism as its economic base based on its proximity to Toronto and the rest of southern Ontario. For many Ontarians, this is the centre of cottage country. A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ...
Motto: Diversity Our Strength Map of Ontario Counties, Toronto being red Area: 641 sq. ...
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History and government The area now covered by the township was opened for settlement and organized in 1870 into the following geographic (and sometime municipal) townships of Watt, Cardwell, Humphrey, Christie, Medora and Wood. The term township generally means the district or area associated with a town. ...
In 1971, the current municipal structure took hold when Cardwell Township, Watt Township, Medora and Wood Townships, Bala, Port Carling, Windermere and part of Monck Township were merged. Bala is a rural cottage country town in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada, with a twin city in the United Kingdom, Bala, Wales. ...
Port Carling is an unincorporated community in and since 1971 municipal seat of the Township of Muskoka Lakes in the Canadian province of Ontario. ...
Demographics Racial Groups Religious Groups White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ...
Indigenous peoples are: Peoples living in an area prior to colonization by a state Peoples living in an area within a nation-state, prior to the formation of a nation-state, but who do not identify with the dominant nation. ...
Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ...
Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...
The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
External links - Township of Muskoka Lakes (http://www.township.muskokalakes.on.ca) municipal site
- Muskoka Lakes Association (http://www.mla.on.ca) residents' organization
- Township of Muskoka Lakes Ratepayers' Association (http://www.tmlra.on.ca) organizational site
- Muskoka Lakes Chamber of Commerce (http://www.muskokalakeschamber.com) business site
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