Northern Ontario

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Northern Ontario covers 90% of the area of Ontario, but has only 6% of its population—about 730,000 people.

Sparse and natural and the area is known for its outdoors activities and rugged inhabitants. Distances are large in Northern Ontario – it's 1600 km (1000 miles) from North Bay to the Manitoba border.

Cities, towns and neighborhoods

Northern Ontario has nine cities ( Greater Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, North Bay, Timmins, Kenora, Elliot Lake, Temiskaming Shores, Dryden) and many small towns.

With the exception of the Greater Sudbury municipality, all of northern Ontario's land is divided into neighborhoods. These neighborhoods include vast tracts of sparsely-populated territory where public services are provided by the government of Ontario.

Rainy River

In the far west of the province, Ontario's Rainy River District is part of the so-called M.O.M. region, where Manitoba borders Ontario and Minnesota. This area is in the Central time zone.

  • Fort Frances GPS 48.61135,-93.39675
  • Lake of the Woods GPS 49.0000,-94.3833
  • Quetico Provincial Park GPS 48.3964,-91.5353
  • Rainy River GPS 48.7167,-94.5667

Kenora

Sparsely-populated Kenora District covers 407,213 km² (almost 38 percent of the province's land area), extending north to Hudson's Bay and including most of the Ontario-Manitoba border. This area is in the Central time zone.

Thunder Bay

This neighborhood covers most of northwestern Lake Superior and the westernmost Canadian territory in the Great Lakes region.

  • Dorion GPS 48.7833,-88.6000 Ouimet Canyon--the Length.jpg, home of Ouimet Canyon
  • Greenstone: ]]Geraldton (Ontario) | Geraldton]] GPS 49.725,-86.950 and Longlac GPS 49.7719,-86.5345 (located on both the Trans-Canada Highway and The Canadian rail line)
  • Manitouwadge GPS 49.1333,-85.8333
  • Marathon GPS 48.7500,-86.3667
  • Nipigon GPS 49.012,-88.261
  • Red Rock GPS 48.9500,-88.2833 Red Rock ON 1.JPG
  • Schreiber GPS 48.8167,-87.2667 and the northernmost point on Lake Superior, near the main exposure of the Gunflint chert
  • Terrace Bay GPS 48.8000,-87.1000
  • Thunder Bay GPS 48.38305,-89.24555 Sleeping Giant Seen from Intercity.JPG

Cochrane

  • Cochrane GPS 49.0667,-81.0167
  • Hearst GPS 49.7000,-83.6667 was founded 1913 as a rail town, 208 kilometers west of Cochrane
  • Kapuskasing GPS 49.4167,-82.4333
  • Moosonee GPS 51.27222,-80.64306 Moosonee waterfront.JPG is the railhead of the Ontario Northland Railway on Hudson's Bay
  • Timmins GPS 48.4667,-81.3333

Timiskaming

This is mining country, near the Ontario-Quebec border.

Algoma

Algoma District is at the eastern end of Lake Superior, where it borders Michigan at Sault Ste. Marie.

Sudbury

  • Espanola GPS 46.2567,-81.7703 is the seat of Sudbury District.
  • Greater Sudbury GPS 46.4899,-80.9898 is the largest city in the neighborhood.

Nipissing

Parry Sound District

Manitoulin District

Northern Ontario Halal Explorer

Ontario is Canada's most populous province, with nearly 40 percent of the nation's population, but most of Ontario's thirteen and a half million people live in southern, beaten-path communities along the Windsor-Quebec corridor.

This leaves the rest of the province very sparsely populated, with Northern Ontario's few people spread across a vast area which spans two time zones. Don't expect to drive across all of Northern Ontario in a day; it's miles 1000 of Trans-Canada Highway from North Bay to the Manitoba border and a few communities (mostly on native lands around Hudson Bay) have no intercity road access at all.

Local Language in Northern Ontario

There are several small francophone communities in Northern Ontario, but English speaking travellers shouldn't encounter any issues with language since most of those living in these communities are bilingual (English-French). There are also many communities that speak mainly Cree, though there are usually English speakers there as well.

Travel to Northern Ontario

Buy a Flight ticket to and from Northern Ontario

Air Canada Express provides daily service from Toronto Pearson International Airport (IATA Flight Code: YYZ) to North Bay, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins and Thunder Bay from Toronto (Thunder Bay also served from Winnipeg, Manitoba). Westjet flies to Thunder Bay from Toronto. Bearskin Airlines (based in Thunder Bay) provides services to various smaller communities in Northern Ontario, including Red Lake, Dryden, Sioux Lookout and Kenora from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Porter Airlines flies to Thunder Bay, Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie from Toronto City Island Airport (IATA Flight Code: YTZ).

By car

The 2 main routes through Northern Ontario are Highways #11 and #17. They diverge at North Bay with Hwy. 11 going north and Hwy. 17 going west to Sault Ste. Marie then north from there. Both highways continue westward toward Manitoba, with a few points where there is only one road. The Trans-Canada Highway distance from North Bay to the Manitoba border is roughly 1650km (1050mi).

By rail

ViaRail provides service from Toronto to Sudbury and continues through Northern Ontario to Winnipeg, Manitoba and westward. Sudbury is the only major city in Northern Ontario ViaRail operates to. While the former Ontario Northland passenger rail service from Toronto to North Bay and Cochrane (Ontario) | Cochrane, Ontario has been replaced by a bus and there is passenger rail service from Cochrane to Moosonee on the Polar Bear Express. Algoma Central Railway operates from Sault Ste. Marie to Hearst on alternate days.

Travel on a Bus in Northern Ontario

Ontario Northland coach service includes the following routes:

Kasper Bus serves western areas, including:

How to get around in Northern Ontario

By car

Car rental services are available in most of the larger centres, including Kenora, Red Lake, Thunder Bay, Nipigon, Terrace Bay, Marathon, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Timmins, and North Bay.

Muslim Friendly Rail Holidays in Northern Ontario

Ontario Northland operates the Polar Bear Express railway between Cochrane and Moosonee, on the Hudson Bay shore, hauling mostly local residents (the railway is the only method of overland access for many isolated Northern communities) and freight, plus some tourists. This train is one of the few remaining in North America that lets you flag it down to get picked up. Northbound trains leave Cochrane at 9AM five days a week, arriving in Moosonee at 2:20PM. Going the other way, trains depart Moosonee at 5PM and return to Cochrane at 11:30PM.

What to see in Northern Ontario

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  • Aguasabon Falls, Terrace Bay, Ontario
  • Ouimet Canyon, Dorion, Ontario

Ouimet canyon

Top Muslim Travel Tips for Northern Ontario

Camping: Northern Ontario has a lot of provincial parks, some for day use only and others that have camping facilities. There are 3 large ones accessible by highways: Quetico Provincial Park; Lake Superior Provincial Park and Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park. There is one national park: Pukaskwa (pronounced "puck-a-saw"; just south of Marathon (Ontario) | Marathon) which offers day use and overnight facilities. No motorized boats are allowed to be used in the park except those that access the park from Lake Superior.

Train excursions: Algoma Central Railway operates the Agawa Canyon Tour train departing from Sault Ste. Marie going north to Agawa Canyon and returning the same day.

Halal Restaurants in Northern Ontario

Please look under the cities for a list of Halal restaurants

Stay Safe

Summer

Black flies and mosquitoes are abundant throughout Northern Ontario. To protect yourself when camping or hiking, wear long sleeve shirts (white or brightly colored), thick socks, and long pants (tuck the pants into the socks) and apply insect repellent containing DEET. A mosquito net can be nicer than applying repellent to your face.Also some type of bug netting in your tent is advised. Flies are most active at dawn and dusk between mid June and late July.

Winter

Winter driving in the North can be treacherous, given the inclement winters here. Be prepared to adjust or cancel travel plans should the weather conditions require it.

News & References Northern Ontario


Travel Next

West toManitoba; south to Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Central Ontario and Eastern Ontario; east to the Abitibi region of Quebec; or, if you have access to an aircraft, north to Nunavut.

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