Stretching between the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay, Canada’s most populous province is at once cosmopolitan and provincial, industrial and undeveloped. Its capital, Toronto, is a diverse and sophisticated metropolis. The Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Valley in the south is the province’s most fertile region and the center of both agriculture and industry; farther north, the landscape becomes increasingly severe, but its stark beauty enchants travelers, who are treated to dramatic cliffs and roaming caribou. The Algoma Country’s railway trains traverse the northern wilderness. In the southwest, the Fathom Five National Marine Park on Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay is a remarkable underwater preserve where scuba divers and glass-bottom boaters gaze at shipwrecks. Canada’s capital, Ottawa, bustles with museums, cafés, music and theater.

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