islands and bays library
Canada's islands and bays include some of the most beautiful in the world with the British Columbia nature preserves on the Pacific Ocean and the maritime provinces and smaller islands on the Atlantic shores.
Featured Article: North Bay
North Bay, Ontario, Canada, a city on the north shore of Lake Nipissing. North Bay is a marketing and distribution center for the surrounding agricultural, mining, and lumbering region. See more »
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Anticosti Island
Anticosti Island, an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Province of Quebec, Canada.
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Cape Breton Island, an island that is part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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Georgian Bay, a northeastern arm of Lake Huron, in southeastern Ontario. The bay is nearly separated from the lake by Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island.
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Hudson Bay, a body of water in northeastern Canada. It is one of the largest ocean inlets in the world, with an area of about 317,500 square miles (822,300 km)—roughly three times the size of the Great Lakes combined.
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James Bay, the southern arm of Hudson Bay, between northeastern Ontario and western Quebec, Canada.
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Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, an island in northern Lake Huron. The island is separated from the nearby mainland by the North Channel and a tip of Georgian Bay.
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North Bay, Ontario, Canada, a city on the north shore of Lake Nipissing. North Bay is a marketing and distribution center for the surrounding agricultural, mining, and lumbering region.
See more »St. Pierre and Miquelon
St. Pierre and Miquelon, an overseas collectivité territoriale (territorial community) of France, consisting of several barren, rocky islands about 15 miles (24 km) off the southern coast of Newfoundland.
See more »Strait of Belle Isle
Belle Isle, Strait of, the northern entrance from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Atlantic Ocean, between Newfoundland and Labrador.
See more »The Bay of Fundy
Fundy, Bay of, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, eastward from Maine.
See more »The Magdalen Islands
Magdalen Islands, or îles de la Madeleine, an island group of Quebec, Canada. It is in the Gulf of St.
See more »The Queen Charlotte Islands
Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, a group of two large islands, Graham and Moresby, and about 150 islets.
See more »The Queen Elizabeth Islands
Queen Elizabeth Islands, the northernmost islands of North America. They include all the Canadian Arctic islands north of the channel extending from M'Clure Strait to Lancaster Sound.
See more »The Thousand Islands
Thousand Islands, a group of islands in the St. Lawrence River, just downstream from Lake Ontario.
See more »Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island, a Canadian island in the Pacific Ocean forming part of British Columbia.
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