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Originally Posted by manny_santos
Even within Ontario, outside the GTA there's some strange conceptions people have of the world outside of their own immediate backyard. Just a couple days ago I was talking to a guy from Brockville and he was shocked that London is bigger than Kingston. He thought London had a population of 40,000, tops.
Likewise in Southwestern Ontario, some people I've talked to are surprised at Kingston's population. Some people think it's a lot smaller than it is, and some people think it's a lot bigger than it is. but few seem to know the actual ballpark it fits into.
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My grandfather was initially surprised to learn that Ottawa is bigger than London, but he rarely strays beyond Huron County, so that's not that surprising.
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Originally Posted by Loco101
Because of the Canadian Shield rock. But most of Northern Ontario does not have rock just like that! Only the Southern portions. Once you go further North, the rock, is less pronounced and you don't see the big rock cuts like you do around Sudbury or North Bay. AND, on the Hudson Bay Lowlands, you will find limestone! There is a limestone quarry in Moosonee.
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Geologically Ontario doesn't divide neatly into north and south. In the south, you have the Paleozoic rocks in the south and eastern portions (as well as Manitoulin Island) with the Precambrian Grenville Province appearing in the central bit in between, roughly from just north of Orillia, directly east to Kingston, and then north to the Renfrew area. In the north, the Grenville Province ends roughly around Sudbury and transitions into the even older Superior Province which is characterized more by greenstone belts throughout save for intrusive volcanic rocks in the area of Thunder Bay and Lake Nipigon related to the failed midcontinent rift under Lake Superior and Lake Nipigon. In the far north, the rock is actually of the same period as that found in southern and eastern Ontario. It actually features the youngest rock in the province to the south of Moosonee.
While the basement rock is interesting, the more recent surface geology related to glaciation has greater cultural implications. Effectively, you can divide Ontario into regions which have a lot of soil (and therefore agriculture) and regions which don't and this roughly corresponds to a north-south divide. The wedge in eastern Ontario corresponding to areas around Bancroft and so on actually has much more in common with areas further north than it does to areas to the south. Little agriculture, lots of forestry and mining history, far more similar geography and so on. In many ways, it feels more like Northern Ontario than New Liskeard, for example.
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