As wildfire evacuees from North Spirit Lake and Pikangikum First Nations begin making their way to southern Ontario, those ...

You'll feel like you've been whisked away to Europe as you wander along the historic streets and soak up the surrounding ...

A woman following her car's sat nav on a foggy night took a wrong turn and ended up driving into a lake. The 23-year-old driver from Ontario in Canada was following a GPS route at the tip of the ...

Rotting and full of leaks, His Majesty’s Ship Speedy was in no shape to sail Lake Ontario, much less carry the who’s who of Upper Canada from York to Newcastle, 150 kilometres away.

The island was a popular destination in a city where little of Lake Ontario is publicly accessible. Toronto’s mayor, Olivia Chow, said she used to take her grandchildren to West Island.

As the Little Ice Age began releasing its grip during the 19th century, Euro-Americans moved to the Lake Ontario basin in larger numbers. This climatic shift proved integral to settler expansion.

In Ontario's Lake Superior, for instance, the water lasts about 130 years. Water in Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories has almost the same lifespan, between 120 and 130 years.

This wouldn’t be the first time climate change has affected how humans use this Great Lake, as I show in my new book The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History.During the Little Ice Age ...