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Township, Ontario, Canada, established on August 10, 2000, as the first of
Ontario’s Living Legacy’s new provincial parks. As a waterway class park, it protects the waters and 200-metre wide (660 ft) strips of land along both banks of the Big East River, from the western boundary of Algonquin
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Provincial Park is a non-operating park, meaning that there are no facilities or services for visitors. Low–impact recreational activities such as hiking, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, and nature–viewing are permitted and encouraged.
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More than 400 vascular plant species and over 90 bird species in some 18 vegetation environments are found within the park, including over 30 regionally or provincially rare species of plants and several rare bird species.
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