Northern Ontario

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Northern Ontario also lays claim to Canada’s largest interconnecting canoe route system (the season runs from May through October), complete with all the white water your group can handle. Get in touch with majestic nature as you tour the routes of the early Voyageurs and travel back in time to the heady days of the fur trade. The annual Great Rendezvous Festival (July) re-creates those 17th-century moments in Thunder Bay, once the fur trade’s largest and busiest freshwater port.

There’s lots more history to discover in the James Bay Frontier, where the spirit of the gold rush lives on into the 21st century in the town of Kirkland Lake. A thriving gold mining camp at the turn of the century, Kirkland Lake today boasts a modern community and is known for its intriguing Museum of Northern History.

Meanwhile, back in the present, anglers can test their skills in one of nearby North Bay’s renowned fishing tournaments and cast a line for such trophy fish as walleye, bass, pike, sturgeon or muskie, a local favorite. This particular creature of the sea is so popular, in fact, that the northwestern town of Kenora has, as its claim to fame, a 12-meter (40-foot) statue of Huskie the Muskie, the legendary trophy fish that stands guard over this four-season recreation destination.

To the southeast of Kenora, lies the great Georgian Bay, cluttered with tiny islands and surrounded by provincial parks. Here, groups can be inspired by those very same landscapes that were the inspiration for paintings by famous artists like A.Y. Jackson and the Group of Seven.

Northern Summer Adventures
Summer is the season that should come to mind when you think of Northern Ontario touring.
Northern Ontario offers the opportunity to indulge in many summer adventures from beaches in the Lake of the Woods region, to whitewater rafting near Lake Superior, to horseback riding in the Near North. 

Visit one of the seven provincial parks in the Northern Ontario region. Or spend your day on the links of one of the more than sixty public golf courses that dot the region. Kayak or canoe Canada’s largest interconnecting canoe route system or climb a majestic rock cliff.
There is more summer to discover in the North.