Talk:Geography of Ontario

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It'll be nice if I weren't doing this alone. Sum1else 15:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)P.S Thanks Qyd :)

Heh.. I just stumbled upon the page and added to my watchlist. I like working on geography pages and, being from Buffalo originally, feel a fondness and at least some first-hand familiarity with Ontario. I'll try to add stuff when I get the time! An interesting bit of geography info for Ontario might be the rivers and lakes and old portages used in fur trade days. I've read about the routes a lot, but when looking at maps always have trouble figuring how just what connects to what, river/lake-wise. Would be fun to look into. Pfly 17:28, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Freshwater in Ontario

Regarding the statement:

Ontario is known for the large number of lakes and rivers it contains. About one-third of the world's fresh water can be found in Ontario...

I find it unlikely that this is true, irrespective of the cited source (which is really just a government web page with no hard data to back up the assertion). Even in Canada, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have large freshwater lakes that may surpass Ontario, both in surface area and volume, and BC has plenty of freshwater rivers. If anyone has stats for this, it would certainly help. Mindmatrix 13:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

It's probably promotional half-truth - if one third of the world's freshwater is in the great lakes, and Ontario is on the great lakes, then Ontario must have one third of the world's fresh water, no? The great lakes themselves only have a fifth, and while Ontario has dozens of large rivers, I doubt they can make up for the rest. Vidioman 20:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)