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In economic terms, Norfolk County is one of the most diversified agricultural economies in Canada, with gross farm receipts of US$ 420 million (in 2006), making it the fifth-largest agricultural region in
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Long Point is one of Canada’s iconic landscapes, with a sand spit formation extending 40 km into Lake Erie. It is the largest erosion deposit formation in the Great Lakes, created by water-borne sediments swept eastward and deposited in part along an underwater glacial moraine. Habitats on and
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