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Other important lakes in the Proving- arcl - \lmibi, 356 square 



miles; Eagle, 1.7 ; l.a C: Lake of the Woods, 1,851; Millc 



"duxkoka. 54: Nii'i.U"". 1.730; Nipissing, 330; Ram). 



Rice, 27; Sand). 30); Scu^og, 39; Seul, 392; Simcoe, 300; 



St. Joseph, 245; Timagami, 91 ; Timiskaming, 117; Trout, 300; and 



others. 



The chief ports on the Canadian >idc of Lake Superior are Fort 

 William and Port Arthur, where millions of bushels of wheat are 

 Chipped from the prairie provinces of the Northwest; on the main 

 of Lake Huron Cock-rich, Kincardine, and Southampton; on 

 Georgian Gay Wiarton, Owen Sound, Collingwood, Midland, and 

 Depot Harbor; on Lake Erie Port Colborne, Port Dover, Port 

 Stanley, and Rondeau; and on Lake Ontario Niagara, Port Dal- 

 housie, Hamilton, Toronto, Whitby, Port Hope, Cobourg, Belle- 

 ville, Picton, and Kingston. 



The total number of sailing ships and steamers of the lakes and 

 rivers of Ontario as on the Dominion Register, Dec. 31, 1911, was 

 2,014; number of steamers, 1,472; gross tonnage of steamers, 



/>28; total net tonnage of sailing ships and steamers, 236,877. 



Canals. 



The canals along the route of the Great Lakes and the St. 

 Lawrence River between Port Arthur and Montreal are: the 

 Sault Ste. Marie Canal. 1% miles long; the Welland Canal, 26% 

 miles, connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario; and the St. Lawrence 

 Canals, 451:, miles lon, making 73^. miles in all. The complete 

 way distance between these two cities is i.jj^'- miles. 



Two other canal systems are: (T) the Ridcau River system, from 

 Kingston to Ottawa, and (2) the Trent Valley system, from Lake 

 Ontario at Trenton through the Kawartha Lakes to Georgian Bay. 



The Murray Canal, 5 1-6 miles long, divides Prince Edward 

 County from the mainland and gives a southwest entrance int<> the 

 Bay of Quinte. 



