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Show me Ontario!
| Detailed Help file that explains how to navigate this site | |
| A listing of maps available on this search engine. | |
| Alphabetical and Topic Listings of Advertisers. | |
| Choose the city and follow the link to its home page or related regional map. | |
| Extra info for Canadians, Americans and World-Wide Visitors. | |
| New this year. The Images link you to the region where they were taken. | |
| Please take the time to sign the guestbook. Your input is vital to the development of the site | |
| If you wish to advertise on this site you will find detailed information on our advertising models and rates |
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In association with Amazon Books Ontario Explorer will be offering a selection of books on topics related to this site. You can browse our book catalogue, or click on the logo and go directly to Amazon. |
storewhere you can order merchandise online. Our first offering is our Ontario Explorer Fridge Magnets.Beautiful photographic images from around Ontario are bonded to magnets and are ready to display. They are a very popular item.
| Our newest feature is our company |
Welcome to the inaguration of Ontario Explorer a map-based search engine for the province of Ontario. This page is a generalized version of its "sister-ship"
Dive Into the Net which is a scuba diving exploration platform for Ontario.The main purpose of this search engine is to allow the potential visitor to Ontario to explore the endless possibilities within the province and contact the necessary businesses and support services that they may need. This site is inherently graphical in nature and so your images should be turned on. Your browser should support client side sensitive maps. The site will work best with Netscape 2 or higher. If you are a new visitor to the site, be sure to visit the Introduction menu before you begin your search. It will explain how the site is layed out and show you how to navigate the sites various indexes easily and quickly.
In this initial release regions one through four are active. If you click on regions five through twelve or access any Great Lake you will be linked into Dive-Into-The-Net. While this is a platform that caters specifically to the diving community the maps and overview offered are comprehensive enough to allow a general exploration until the remaining sections of Ontario Explorer are issued. The remaining maps will be released in the next few months.
The maps of the Great Lake concentrate on specific shorelines to help you isolate activity by water body. They also provide more generalized information on the specific lake. However, the lakes are gigantic, so vacation planning is probably best decided from regional maps, not by lakes.
Regions one through six occupy the most populated section of Ontario, and have the greatest concentration of businesses, museums, towns, etc. Regions seven through nine are generally less populated,with urban centres getting smaller and farther in between. Here, the natural landscape excels.
Regions ten through twelve are getting remote and are not usual destinations for inhabitants of Southern Ontario. From Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota these areas can be accessed in a few hours driving. Coming from southern Ontario these areas are several days driving away. The northern most reaches of the province are reachable only through rail and air travel.
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