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The Best Attractions In Shuniah

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Shuniah is a municipal township bordering the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada on the east. Shuniah was incorporated by an act of the Ontario legislature in 1873, and at that time included much of present-day Thunder Bay and its predecessor and surrounding municipalities. Shuniah, named after the Ojibwa word zhooniyaa for money or silver , was settled largely due to silver mining potential identified in the mid-19th century. The township is part of Thunder Bay's Census Metropolitan Area, and consists of the communities of Amethyst Harbour, Ancliff, Bowker, Ishkibibble, Loon, Mackenzie, Navilus, Pass Lake, Pearl, Silver Harbour and Wild Goose. Servi...
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  • 4. Kakabeka Falls Kakabeka Falls
    Kakabeka Falls is a waterfall on the Kaministiquia River, located beside the village of Kakabeka Falls in the municipality of Oliver Paipoonge, Ontario, 30 km west of the city of Thunder Bay. The falls have a drop of 40 m , cascading into a gorge carved out of the Precambrian Shield by meltwater following the last glacial maximum. Because of its size and ease of access, it has been consequently nicknamed the Niagara of the North. The rock face of the falls and the escarpments along the gorge are composed primarily of unstable shale, and are eroding. These rocks host sensitive flora, and contain some of the oldest fossils in existence, some 1.6 billion years of age. Due to the fragile rock, going into the gorge below the falls is prohibited.The name Kakabeka comes from the Ojibwe word gakaa...
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  • 5. Aguasabon Falls & Gorge Terrace Bay
    The Aguasabon River is a river in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. The river originates at Chorus Lake and empties into Lake Superior near the community of Terrace Bay. The Aguasabon is 70 kilometres in length, and plunges down 30 metres at the Aguasabon Falls. The river follows fractures in the 2.6 billion-year-old bedrock, and the exposed rock is granodiorite.
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  • 6. Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park Dorion
    Ouimet Canyon is a large gorge in the municipality of Dorion, Thunder Bay District in northwestern Ontario, Canada, about 60 kilometres northeast of the city of Thunder Bay. The gorge is 100 metres deep, 150 metres wide and 2,000 metres long, protected as part of Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park. There is a walkway consisting of boardwalks and trails, which leads to viewing platforms overlooking the canyon. Visitors to the canyon should remain on the marked trails for their own safety. Also in the Ouimet Canyon area, there are rare alpine flowers that are considered especially beautiful and arctic plants normally found one thousand kilometres further north. The canyon is shown in the IMAX film North of Superior. The canyon was named after the former railway station of Ouimet, today an unincor...
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  • 9. Rainbow Falls Provincial Park Rossport
    Rainbow Falls Provincial Park is a recreation-class provincial park within the Ontario Parks system. This 575-hectare park includes the historic Rossport Campground which is near the fishing community of Rossport, Ontario. This park offers campers a choice of camping on the calm shorelines of Whitesand Lake in the main park, or on the rough and rocky shorelines of Lake Superior with their two campgrounds which dot Highway 17. Whitesand Lake campground offers scenic trails to the falls on the Hewitson River and also the Back-40 trail goes through an abandoned campground to a panoramic view of the Lake Superior shoreline. The Rainbow Falls Trail has a waterside boardwalk trail. This park runs a small Natural Heritage Education program with a small visitor centre on the beach and an interpret...
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