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Point Pelee National Park

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Address: 407 Monarch Ln, RR 1
Leamington, ON N8H3V4
Phone: 519-322-2365;
Fax: 519-322-1277;
Phone: 888-773-8888;
Web: www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee
Size: 15.2 sq. km.(including Middle Island).
Established: 1918.
Location: 56 km southeast of Windsor on the most southern point on Canada's mainland -- a large sandspit on the north shore of Lake Erie.
Facilities: Visitor center (é), transit train, observation tower, boardwalk, trails (12 km; @di.), theater program and exhibits, interpretive programs, food concession, boat and bicycle rentals.
Activities: Hiking, swimming, fishing, canoeing, bicycling, skating, bird watching, butterfly watching cross-country skiing.
Special Features: Point Pelee is one of Canada's smallest national parks, but still attracts nearly 400,000 visitors each year. Each spring, birders from around the world converge on Point Pelee to take part in the "Festival of Birds." The month-long festival celebrates the arrival of some of the highest concentrations of migrating songbirds found in North America. Park is also a temporary home to thousands of migrating Monarch butterflies in the fall.

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No references found	Windsor tourist attractions include Casino Windsor, a lively downtown, the Capitol Theatre, Little Italy, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Odette Sculpture Park, Ojibway Park and nearby Point Pelee National Park. Windsor at the of the trail: the 2007 UELAC Conference and AGM by The Loyalist Gazette Here, and on Point Pelee National Park, you'll find an internationally renowned habitat for thousands of unique species of wildlife - it's birdwatchers' paradise There are of course many festivals that are integral to wine culture. TRAVEL: GRAPE EXPECTATIONS; ONTARIO'S VINEYARDS ARE RIPE FOR ... by The Mirror (London, England) Also in this area is Point Pelee National Park and along the north shore of Lake Erie are numerous attractive fishing ports. Places to See and Photograph In and Around Ontario by White, Stan / PSA Journal	point of arrival Point Of Contact point of contraflexure point of control point of delivery point of departure point of destination point of division point of fall point of frog point of impact point of inflection point of intersection point of no return point of operation point of order point of osculation point of presence point of sale point of sale terminal point of service point of support point of switch point of tangency Point Pelee Point Pelee National Park Point Pleasant point product point projection electron microscope point rainfall Point Reyes National Seashore Point Roberts Point Sal State Beach point sampling point set point size point solution point source point spectrum Point State Park Point Sur State Historic Park point system point target point transposition Point Work Point, Jack point-and-drool interface point-and-grunt interface point-and-shoot camera point-bearing pile point-blank range	Point of Zenith Point of Zero Charge Point of Zero Net Charge Point of Zero Net Proton Charge Point of Zero Salt Effect point off Point on Curve Point on Line Point on Tangent Point One Total Materials Management Point Operating Equipment Point Optimized Variance Ratio point out point out point out point out an essential difference Point Out the Women point outbreak point outbreak point outbreak point outbreak point outbreak Point Paper Point Paper Point Park College Point Park University Point Pedro Women Research Development Foundation Point peen hammer Point peen hammer Point pelee Point Pelee National Park Point Per Reception Point Pleasant Point Pleasant Branch Library Point Pleasant Park Advisory Committee Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church Point Plume point Po Point Positioning Data Point Positioning Data Base Point Positioning Production System point prescriptions point prescriptions point prescriptions point prescriptions point prescriptions Point prevalence Point prevalence Point prevalence Point prevalence point prevalence rate point prevalence rate point prevalence rate point prevalence rate point prevalence rate point product point projection electron microscope Point Protocol Problem point quotation explanation Point Quote Analysis point rainfall

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Windsor tourist attractions include Casino Windsor, a lively downtown, the Capitol Theatre, Little Italy, the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Odette Sculpture Park, Ojibway Park and nearby Point Pelee National Park.

Windsor at the of the trail: the 2007 UELAC Conference and AGM by The Loyalist Gazette

Here, and on Point Pelee National Park, you'll find an internationally renowned habitat for thousands of unique species of wildlife - it's birdwatchers' paradise There are of course many festivals that are integral to wine culture.

TRAVEL: GRAPE EXPECTATIONS; ONTARIO'S VINEYARDS ARE RIPE FOR ... by The Mirror (London, England)

Also in this area is Point Pelee National Park and along the north shore of Lake Erie are numerous attractive fishing ports.

Places to See and Photograph In and Around Ontario by White, Stan / PSA Journal

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