Northwestern Ontario is a vast area, much of which lies on the gently inclining, rocky and forested terrain of the Canadian Shield. |
One of only 11 bogs and nine fens in the Canadian Shield that exceed 100 hectares in expanse. |
Although these banded rocks are not organic, they do look like the banded stromatolites now known from the Precambrian of the Canadian Shield. |
The park lies in the southern part of the Canadian Shield, representing some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the world. |
But can they be the decisive factor when comparing summer tenting in the rocks of the Rockies to the rocks of Ontario's Canadian Shield? |
Compared to the Canadian Shield, the world's great mountain ranges are the merest infants. |