![]() ![]() Its upper reaches are known for world-class fishing for brown trout paddling is popular all along the river and the most extensive system of hiking trails in Ontario winds along its banks. Nestled in the heartland of the most populated part of Canada, the Grand River is important for recreation and tourism. Many historic buildings, from rural homes to flour and textile mills, foundries and distilleries, still appear much as they did during their 19th-century heyday. Mennonites from Pennsylvania in search of religious freedom settled near the present-day city of Waterloo. The town of Brantford stands near the river crossing named after their famous leader Joseph Brant. To the early French settlers, the river was known as Rivière la Rapide or Rivière L'Urse, "Bear River." The name "Grand" first appears on a map from 1744.įollowing the American Revolution, the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy from Upper New York State received a land grant along the Grand in recognition of their loyalty to Britain. The first European known to descend the river was the famous explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle in 1669. ![]() People hunted mastadon and bison here more than 10 000 years ago. Indigenous cultures have long prospered along the Grand. At Paris, where the Nith River meets the Grand, the Grand's southerly flow becomes more easterly. ![]() ![]() Below the city of Cambridge, the river is bordered by long stretches of Carolinian forest composed of sycamore, black walnut, hackberry and other species rare in Canada. At Elora, the river tumbles over a 15-metre waterfall and rushes between sheer 25-metre limestone walls. ®Aeroplan is a registered trademark of Aeroplan Inc., used under license.The Grand meanders past fertile farm fields (almost 80% of the watershed is farmland), towns and cities and through rich wetlands, like Luther Marsh in its northern reaches. Should you have any questions regarding the collection of this information, please contact the Freedom of Information and Privacy Office, 100 Queens Quay East, 9th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5E 0C7, Toronto, ON, Telephone 41, Fax 41, E-mail You may also visit the LCBO Privacy Policy for further details. If you provide your Aeroplan member number we also will use LCBO purchases made using this number to customize the communications and offers you receive. The personal information related to a LCBO Email subscription, including information collected through the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies that can sometimes be considered personal information, is collected under the authority of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Act, 2019, SO 2019, c 15, Sch 21, Section 3 and will be used for the purpose of providing you with communications and offers from the LCBO. Beginning far up into the mountains of Lake Clark National Park, the Stony River is a little known but beautiful glacial river that flows south away from the Revelation Mountains and out of Sled Pass to a point where it then flows northwest through the rolling foothills to where it eventually joins the Kuskokwim River near the village of Stony River. ![]()
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