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Lake Ontario - MSN Encarta (232 words) |
 | Lake Ontario, lake, central North America, bordered on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by the state of New York. |
 | Lake Ontario is fed by several rivers, including the Niagara River, which flows north from Lake Erie; the Genesee, Oswego, and Black rivers, which enter from New York; and the Trent and Humber rivers, which enter from Ontario. |
 | In addition, Lake Ontario is connected with the Ottawa River by the Rideau Canal and with the Hudson River by the New York State Canal System. |
| The Directory of Canadian Universities - Trent University (1192 words) |
 | Trent University is known for its commitment to high quality education in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and professional programs - and to the centrality of the individual student. |
 | Trent’s Worsfold Water Quality Centre houses the world’s leading state-of-the-art instrumentation and is at the core of the new Chemical Sciences Building, while the university’s new DNA Building has put the University at the centre of a regional life sciences economic cluster. |
 | Trent University is internationally recognized for its research in environmental and life science, with special strengths in studies of environmental change and monitoring, conservation biology, and water quality. |