Parry Sound
Sound in Canada
Parry Sound is a sound or bay of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. It is highly irregularly shaped with many deep bays and islands. Killbear Provincial Park is located on the large peninsula that separates the sound from Georgian Bay, while it is bordered on the south side by Parry Island, home of the Wasauksing First Nation, Wasauksing being the First Nation's name for the bay. At the head of the sound is the namesake town that is the largest community on the shores of Georgian Bay from Severn Sound to Manitoulin Island.
The following entities are named after this geographic feature:
- Parry Sound District
- Parry Sound, town and seat of Parry Sound District
- Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part, Ontario
- Parry Sound, Unorganized, North East Part, Ontario
- Electoral districts
- Parry Sound (federal electoral district), the federal electoral district from 1904 to 1949
- Parry Sound-Muskoka, the current federal electoral district
- Parry Sound, Muskoka (provincial electoral district), the current provincial electoral district
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Parry Sound”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- ON ParrySound tango7174.jpg by Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0
- KillbearPP - morning.jpg by Waterloo Hildreds, CC BY 2.0
- Aerial View of Parry Sound (5432193255).jpg by Jim Marshall from Parry Sound, Canada, CC BY 2.0
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