Northern Ontario facts
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"muskeg", very damp soil, is why northern Ontario is almost uninhabited. Sometimes 100 feet deep or more, unless completely cleared it freezes and buckles construction in winter, and swallows anything left (locomotives, construction equipment, moose, etc.) when it thaws in the spring.
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In 1976 a novel about "a lonely librarian in northern Ontario who enters into a sexual relationship with a bear" won the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award
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The Clay Belt, a large area suitable for farming in northern Ontario and Quebec. Although land is free for use and very fertile, settlement attempts repeatedly failed; one farmer gave up because "there are seven months of snow, two months rain, and all the rest is black flies and mosquitoes".
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During WWI, the remote Northern Ontario town of Kapuskasing was used as an internment camp. It housed over 1000 prisoners, and had minimal security due to its isolation. Any prisoners who tried to escape were turned back by endless muskeg, clouds of mosquitoes, and -40°C in the winter.
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In 2014, DeBeers' Diamond Mine in Northern Ontario only paid $226 in royalties, after being in operation since 2008. It is estimated that operations will continue until 2020.
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The Chapleau Game Reserve in northern Ontario is the largest game reserve in the world and is bigger than the countries of Brunei, Trinidad or Luxembourg.
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Almost exclusively to one small city in Northern Ontario, the word "shag" refers to a party thrown by an engaged couple, and there are signs around town to rent rooms for a "shag"
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A Anglican Minister and Boy Scout Leader who sexually assaulted up to 500 young boys across Northern Ontario's Fly-in First Nation Reserves in the 70's and 80's
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There is a town in northern Ontario named Redditt
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Last January a bridge in northern Ontario broke down, effectively splitting the Trans-Canada highway into two separate parts.
