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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: Tales from the Lake of Shining Waters | North Coast Chronicles
Description: In the Iroquoian language, the "Lake of Shining Waters" is Lake Ontario. As you would expect, the First Nations were the first to live in the watershed!. In fact, People have lived in the Ontario region for more than 12,000 years. Before the arrival of the European settlers, Algonquian- and Iroquoian-speaking native communities had settled on the land. Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is surrounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the state of New York, whose water boundaries m...