Northern Ontario Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
primary region in Ontario, Canada
About Northern Ontario
Ontario is Canada's most populous province, with nearly 40 percent of the country's population, but most of Ontario's 13.5 million people live in southern communities along theWindsor-Quebec corridor. This leaves the rest of the province very sparsely populated, with Northern Ontario's few people spread across a vast area which spans two time zones. Northern Ontario covers 90% of the area ofOntario, but has only 6% of its population—about 730,000 people. Don't expect to drive across all of Northern Ontario in a day; it's1,000mi (1,600km)ofTrans-Canada HighwayfromNorth Bayto theManitobaborder and a few communities (mostly on Indigenous lands around Hudson Bay) have no intercity road access at all. Most of Northern Ontario sits on theCanadian Shield, a vast rocky plateau, and most of it is
Northern Ontario Travel Guide Sections
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