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Port Colborne, the Glossary

Port Colborne is a city in Ontario, Canada that is located on Lake Erie, at the southern end of the Welland Canal, in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario.^[1]

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Important Bird Areas of Ontario
Populated places on Lake Erie in Canada

Alexis Davis (fighter)

Alexis Evelyn Chris Davis (born October 4, 1984) is a Canadian mixed martial artist who competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) where she is a former Title challenger.

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Algoma Steel

Algoma Steel Inc. (formerly Algoma Steel; Essar Steel Algoma) is an integrated primary steel producer located on the St. Marys River in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Area codes 905, 289, 365, and 742

Area codes 905, 289, 365, and 742 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Golden Horseshoe region that surrounds Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada.

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BCE Inc.

BCE Inc., an abbreviation of its former name Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., is a publicly traded Canadian holding company for Bell Canada, which includes telecommunications providers and various mass media assets under its subsidiary Bell Media Inc.

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Beaver Wars

The Beaver Wars (Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.

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Blast furnace

A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.

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Blizzard of 1977

The blizzard of 1977 hit Western New York and Southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1 of that year.

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Bronco Horvath

Bronco Joseph Horvath (March 12, 1930 – December 17, 2019) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 434 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1955 and 1968.

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Canal Days

Canal Days is a marine heritage festival held in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada.

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Cement

A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.

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Chert

Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

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Clarence Street Bridge

The Clarence Street Bridge (also known as Bridge 21) is a vertical-lift bridge located in Port Colborne, Ontario.

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Class action

A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group.

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Court of Appeal for Ontario

The Court of Appeal for Ontario (frequently mistakenly referred to as the Ontario Court of Appeal) (ONCA is the abbreviation for its neutral citation) is the appellate court for the province of Ontario, Canada.

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David Lametti

David T. Lametti (born August 10, 1962) is a Canadian politician and lawyer who was the member of Parliament for LaSalle—Émard—Verdun from 2015 to 2024.

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Degrassi: The Next Generation

Degrassi: The Next Generation (renamed to Degrassi for seasons 10 to 14) is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Yan Moore and Linda Schuyler.

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Don Simmons (ice hockey)

Donald William "Dippy" Simmons (September 13, 1931 – September 24, 2010) was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Elmer Iseler

Elmer Walter Iseler, (October 14, 1927 – April 3, 1998) was a Canadian choir conductor and choral editor.

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; Environnement et Changement climatique Canada)Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment.

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First Welland Canal

The Welland Canal has gone through many incarnations in its history.

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Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.

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Floyd G. Robinson

Floyd Grant Robinson (2 Jan 1931–18 Dec 2023) was a teacher, education theorist and curriculum developer.

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Fort Erie, Ontario

Fort Erie is a town in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. Port Colborne and Fort Erie, Ontario are lower-tier municipalities in Ontario and Populated places on Lake Erie in Canada.

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Francis Moore (ice hockey)

Francis William "Dinty" Moore (October 29, 1900 – January 21, 1976) was a Canadian goaltender who competed in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics.

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Geographical Names Board of Canada

The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canada.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada.

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Grain elevator

A grain elevator is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain.

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Great Lake Swimmers

Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto.

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Gristmill

A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.

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Helen Kinnear

Helen Alice Kinnear, (May 6, 1894 – April 25, 1970) was a Canadian lawyer and judge.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Jeff Burch

Jeff Burch is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election.

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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Jim Gregory (ice hockey)

James Michael Gregory (November 4, 1935 – October 30, 2019) was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and executive.

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John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton

Field Marshal John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, (16 February 1778 – 17 April 1863) was a British Army officer and colonial governor.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie (Lac Érié) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally.

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Lakeshore Catholic High School

Lakeshore Catholic High School is a high school located in Port Colborne, just north of the eastern edge of Lake Erie, in Ontario, Canada.

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Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (OLA; Assemblée législative de l'Ontario) is the legislative chamber of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC; region, PLC) is a federal political party in Canada.

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Lincoln County, Ontario

Lincoln County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Lions Clubs International

Lions Clubs International, is an international service organization, currently headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, U.S., it had over 46,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 million members (including the youth wing Leo) in more than 200 countries and geographic areas around the world.

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List of cities in Ontario

A city is a subtype of municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario. Port Colborne and List of cities in Ontario are cities in Ontario.

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List of House members of the 44th Parliament of Canada

This is a preliminary list of members of the House of Commons of Canada in the 44th Canadian Parliament.

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List of lieutenant governors of Ontario

The following is a list of lieutenant governors of Ontario and the lieutenant governors of the former colony of Upper Canada.

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List of postal codes of Canada: L

This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is L. Postal codes beginning with L are located within the Canadian province of Ontario.

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List of regions of Canada

The list of regions of Canada is a summary of geographical areas on a hierarchy that ranges from national (groups of provinces and territories) at the top to local regions and sub-regions of provinces at the bottom.

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Lock (water navigation)

A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.

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Lynton Wilson

Lynton Ronald 'Red' Wilson, (born April 3, 1940) is a Canadian business executive.

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Matt Craven

Matthew John Crnkovich (born November 10, 1956), known as Matt Craven, is a Canadian character actor.

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McMaster University

McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Melissa McIntyre

Melissa Erin McIntyre (born May 31, 1986) is a Canadian former television and theatre actress.

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Neutral Confederacy

The Neutral Confederacy (also Neutral Nation, Neutral people, or Attawandaron) was a tribal confederation of Iroquoian peoples.

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New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States.

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Niagara Falls, Ontario

Niagara Falls is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, adjacent to Niagara Falls. Port Colborne and Niagara Falls, Ontario are cities in Ontario and lower-tier municipalities in Ontario.

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Onondaga Limestone

The Onondaga Limestone is a group of hard limestones and dolomites of Devonian age that forms geographic features in some areas in which it outcrops; in others, especially its Southern Ontario portion, the formation can be less prominent as a local surface feature.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Ontario New Democratic Party

The Ontario New Democratic Party (Nouveau Parti démocratique de l'Ontario; abbr. ONDP or NDP) is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit.

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Port Colborne explosion

The Port Colborne explosion at Port Colborne, Ontario was a dust explosion in the Dominion grain elevator on August 9, 1919.

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Port Colborne High School

Port Colborne High School, commonly known as Port High, is a high school in Port Colborne, just north of the eastern edge of Lake Erie, Ontario, Canada.

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In metallurgy, refining consists of purifying an impure metal.

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Regional Municipality of Niagara

The Regional Municipality of Niagara, also colloquially known as the Niagara Region or Region of Niagara, is a regional municipality comprising twelve municipalities of Southern Ontario, Canada. Port Colborne and regional Municipality of Niagara are Populated places on Lake Erie in Canada.

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Russell Lambert Boyle

Russel Lambert Boyle (October 29, 1880 – April 25, 1915) was a Canadian rancher and soldier.

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Rylands v Fletcher

Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 is a leading decision by the House of Lords which established a new area of English tort law.

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Secondary school

A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.

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Service club

A service club or service organization is a voluntary nonprofit organization where members meet regularly to perform charitable works either by direct hands-on efforts or by raising money for other organizations.

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Southern Ontario

Southern Ontario is a primary region of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.

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Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; Cour suprême du Canada, CSC) is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada.

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Supreme Court of Ontario

The Supreme Court of Ontario was a superior court of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Ted Kennedy (ice hockey)

Theodore Samuel "Teeder" Kennedy (December 12, 1925 – August 14, 2009) was a professional ice hockey centre who played his entire career with the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1943 to 1957 and was captain for eight seasons.

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The DeFranco Family

The DeFranco Family, featuring Tony DeFranco, was a 1970s pop music group and family from Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada.

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Tony Dekker

Tony Dekker is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

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Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs (officially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club and often referred to as the Leafs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto.

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United Empire Loyalist

United Empire Loyalist (UEL; or simply Loyalist) is an honorific title which was first given by the 1st Lord Dorchester, the Governor of Quebec and Governor General of the Canadas, to American Loyalists who resettled in British North America during or after the American Revolution.

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Vale Canada

Vale Canada Limited (formerly Vale Inco, CVRD Inco and Inco Limited; for corporate branding purposes simply known as "Vale" and pronounced in English) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale.

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Vance Badawey

Vance M. Badawey (born October 5, 1964) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Niagara Centre in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election.

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Varina Davis

Varina Anne Banks Davis (Howell; May 7, 1826 – October 16, 1906) was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis.

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Vertical-lift bridge

A vertical-lift bridge or just lift bridge is a type of movable bridge in which a span rises vertically while remaining parallel with the deck.

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Wainfleet, Ontario

Wainfleet is a rural township in southern Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. Port Colborne and Wainfleet, Ontario are lower-tier municipalities in Ontario and Populated places on Lake Erie in Canada.

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Welland

Welland is a city in the Regional Municipality of Niagara in Southern Ontario, Canada. Port Colborne and Welland are cities in Ontario and lower-tier municipalities in Ontario.

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Welland Canal

The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Ontario, Canada, and part of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes Waterway.

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Welland County

Welland County (area, excluding cities was 226,970 acres) is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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2001 Canadian census

The 2001 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population.

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2006 Canadian census

The 2006 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population.

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2011 Canadian census

The 2011 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population on May 10, 2011.

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2016 Canadian census

The 2016 Canadian census was an enumeration of Canadian residents, which counted a population of 35,151,728, a change from its 2011 population of 33,476,688.

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2021 Canadian census

The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Colborne

Also known as Bethel, Niagara Region, Ontario, Bethel, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Bethel, Port Colborne, Ontario, Cedar Bay, Ontario, Echo Beach (Port Colborne), Echo Beach (Port Colborne), Ontario, Gasline, Ontario, History of Port Colborne, Humberstone, Ontario, Lorraine, Ontario, Nickel Beach, Ontario, Pine Crest Point, Ontario, Pleasant Beach, Ontario, Port Colborne (ON), Port Colborne, ON, Port Colborne, Ontario, Port Colburn, Sherkston Beaches, Ontario, Sherkston, Ontario, Shisler Point, Ontario, Silver Bay, Ontario.

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Important Bird Areas of Ontario

Populated places on Lake Erie in Canada

References