Ontario is Canada's most populous province and its economic engine — but step off the highway and you'll find a thousand quiet places: cottage-country lakes, Algonquin canoe routes, Niagara wine country, and small towns that time forgot.
Ontario is Canada's most populous province and its economic engine — but step off the highway and you'll find a thousand quiet places: cottage-country lakes, Algonquin canoe routes, Niagara wine country, and small towns that time forgot.
Ontario holds a fifth of the world's fresh surface water. The Great Lakes define its south; the Canadian Shield — granite, pine, and ten thousand lakes — defines the north. Algonquin Park alone could occupy a lifetime.
Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities on earth. Ottawa is the nation's capital. Northern mining towns, Mennonite farm country, and Franco-Ontarian communities along the Ottawa River all share one vast province.
Push off before the loons wake up. Mist rises off the lake. A moose stands at the far shore. This is the Ontario that postcards forget — and locals guard jealously.
