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GEORGIAN BAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 761 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAY , the N.E. See also:section of See also:Lake See also:Huron, separated from it by Manitoulin See also:Island and the See also:peninsula comprising the counties of See also:Grey and See also:Bruce, See also:Ontario. It is about roo in. See also:long and 5o M. wide, and is said to contain 30,000 islands. It receives numerous See also:rivers draining a large extent of See also:country; of these the See also:chief are the See also:French See also:river draining Lake See also:Nipissing, the Maganatawan draining a number of small lakes, the Muskoka draining the Muskoka See also:chain of lakes (Muskoka, Rosseau, See also:Joseph, &c.) and the See also:Severn draining Lake See also:Simcoe. Into its See also:southern extremity, known as Nottawasaga Bay, flows the river of the same name. The See also:Trent valley See also:canal connects Georgian Bay with the Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario, and a canal See also:system has long been projected to See also:Montreal by way of the French and See also:Ottawa rivers and Lake Nipissing.

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