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Rivers: Ontario
Thousand Islands Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River, by Elizabeth Simcoe (1766-1850).
ID #20240
Niagara Falls A view of Niagara Falls from below, c. 1784. Oil painting by James Erskine.
ID #23232
Credit River A view of Credit River, Upper Canada, 1796. Grey wash and watercolour by Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe (1766-1850), wife of Upper Canada's first lieutenant-governor.
ID #23204
Kakabeka Falls A view of Kakabeka Falls on the Kaministikwia River in future Northern Ontario, 1825. Watercolour by George Back (1796-1878).
ID #23196
Timber Raft Timber raft on the Ottawa River. From the 19th century onward, huge rafts of square hewed timber were floated down the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers for export to Britain.
ID #20243
Falls of the Kaministikwia Falls of the Kaministikwia River, West of Lake Superior, Ontario, 1846. By Henry J. Warre (1819-1898).
ID #21802
Niagara River A view of Niagara River and the Brock Monument, 1865. Watercolour by Francis George Coleridge (1838-1923).
ID #23198
Parry Sound, Ontario Typical small dam-and-timber slide improvement in the Parry Sound, Ontario area, c. 1880s with summertime low water level.
ID #20446
Rushing River Rushing River at Lake of the Woods, Ontario. Monochrome woodcut on wave paper by Walter Joseph Phillips (1884-1963), c. 1931.
ID #20237
Rushing Stream A Northern Ontario stream as it winds its way through rugged pre-Cambrian Canadian Shield terrain.
ID #23034
Ontario River A wide and winding river slicing through Canadian Shield territory in Ontario.
ID #23037
Misty Waters Early morning canoeing on a misty waterway in a Quetico Provincial Park, Northern Ontario.
ID #23060
Wilderness Waterways The endless inland waterway maze of Quetico Provincial Park in Northern Ontario.
ID #23062
Beaver Lodge Built in waters flooded by the beavers themselves, the beaver lodge has an under-water entrance for protection.
ID #23079
Rushing Waters The rushing white water of a typical Northern Ontario stream as it winds its way around granite boulders.
ID #23084
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