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Chapters: Lake Simcoe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 94. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lake Simcoe - Lake Simcoe is a remnant of a much bigger, prehistoric lake known as Lake Algonquin. This lake's basin also included Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Nipigon, and Lake Nipissing. The melting of an ice dam at the close of the last ice age greatly reduced water levels in the region, leaving the lakes of today. At the time of the first European contact in the 17th century, the lake was called Ouentironk ("Beautiful Water") by the Wyandot (Huron) natives. In 1687, Lahontan called it Lake Taronto, an Iroquoian term meaning gateway or pass; Taronto had originally referred to the The Narrows, a channel of water through which Lake Simcoe discharges into Lake Couchiching. Since then, many subsequent mapmakers adopted this name for it, though cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli is thought to have introduced the spelling of Toronto in a map he created in 1695. Map of Lac de Frontenac (Lake Ontario) from the late 1600s, showing Teiaiagon and Lac Taronto, now known as Lake Simcoe.The name 'Toronto' found its way to the current city through its use in the name for the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail (or Toronto Passage), a portage running between Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay, that passed through Lake Toronto, which in turn was used as the name for an early French fort located at the foot of the Toronto Passage, on Lake Ontario. The Severn River, its outlet stream, was once called 'Riviere de Toronto' which flows into Georgian Bay's Severn Sound, then called the 'Baie de Toronto'. The later French traders referred to it as Lac aux Claies, meaning "Lake of Grids (or Trellises)" in reference to the Huron fishing weirs in the lake. It was renamed by John Graves Simcoe in 1793, not in honour ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=276009


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156683255
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 149 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156683254
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 229 mm

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