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Canada HolidaysGreat Lakes & Laurentian Mountains Holidays
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The Iroquois Indians gave Ontario its name (meaning beautiful lake or waters) and the area that offers us the Thousand Islands of Lake Ontario in the east, Algonquin Provincial Park in the north, Georgian Bay and Lakes Superior and Huron in the west, and Lake Erie with Niagara Falls in the south, magnificently lives up to its ponymous description. Although the Laurentian Mountains are in the neighbouring Quebec Province, on the north side of the Ottawa River, we find it natural to link the two areas, making up as they do a sublime expanse of lakes and mountains.
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What is wonderful about this land is its vastness; touring it induces a rare sense of tranquillity. Fortunately, as with the great parks of Western Canada, its beauty has been recognised and conserved. The Algonquin Park has been handed back to its original native owners to manage, using time-honoured methods of fishing and trapping that ensure the ecological balance, while also catering for the tourists that provide such a significant part of today's income.
The Laurentians are wonderfully unspoiled, meandering country roads offering the shimmer of lakes glimpsed through the trees, and sleepy mountain villages like St. Donat de Montcalm attest to the fact that here tourism is still in its infancy.
