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    Oak Bay

    Oak Bay, incorporated as a district municipality in 1906, population 18 015 (2011c), 17 908 (2006c). The District of Oak Bay is located on the southeast corner of VANCOUVER ISLAND, adjoining the city of VICTORIA. It is surrounded by JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT on the south and Haro Strait on the east.

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    Oak Island

    Oak Island, one of over 300 islands in Mahone Bay on Nova Scotia's Atlantic coast, is about 1.6 km long and 0.8 km wide. Legend reputes it as the site of buried treasure, attributed to various pirates, including William Kidd, Henry Morgan, and Blackbeard, as well as to Inca refugees fleeing Spanish conquistadors in South America. 

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    Oak Ridges Moraine

    The Oak Ridges Moraine is a prominent landform in southwestern Ontario, part of the Great Lakes region's linear moraines and Ontario's Greenbelt. Situated north of Lake Ontario, the 160 km-long moraine was named for its once-abundant oak trees. As one of the region's few remaining green corridors, the moraine performs vital environmental functions, filtering drinking water and providing habitats for various species. In 2001, the Oak Ridges Moraine obtained conservation status from the provincial government of Ontario, protecting it from urban expansion.

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    Oakville

    Oakville, Ontario, incorporated as a town in 1857, population 213,759 (2021 census), 193,832 (2016 census). Located in Halton Region, Oakville is west of Mississauga, south of Halton Hills and east of Burlington. The Township of Trafalgar, the Village of Bronte and the Town of Oakville merged in 1962, creating present-day Oakville. Throughout history, the Oakville area has been home to different Indigenous groups, namely the Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg, including the Mississauga. The land is covered by Treaty 14, also known as the Head of the Lake Purchase (see also Upper Canada Land Surrenders).

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    Music in Oakville

    Town founded in 1825 on Sixteen Mile Creek at Lake Ontario, between Toronto and Hamilton. A regimental brass band was formed in 1866 by the 20th Halton Battalion Infantry but was supplanted in 1881 by the

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    Ocean

    The world ocean and its marginal seas cover about 71 per cent of the Earth's surface. Its division into individual oceans and seas is largely arbitrary and has varied through the years. Historically, people referred to five oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic (or Southern). Modern convention speaks of only the first three: the Arctic is considered a marginal sea of the Atlantic; the Southern, the southern continuation of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. Thus, Canada can be seen to be surrounded by two (Atlantic, Pacific) or three (Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic) oceans, depending on the scheme of division used.

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    Oil City

    Oil City, Alberta, is the site of western Canada's first producing oil well, known previously as Original Discovery No 1, located in WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK. Kutenai had used oil from seepage pools along Cameron Creek and early settlers used it to lubricate wagons.

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    Oka

    Oka, Quebec, incorporated as a municipality in 1875, population 3,968 (2021 census),  3,824 (2016 census). Oka is located on Lac des Deux Montagnes, just west of Île de Montréal.

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    Okak Archaeological Sites

    The Okak Archaeological Sites in northern Labrador represent a microcosm of more than 5000 years of Prehistory of that region.

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    Okanagan Lake

    Okanagan Lake is located in the southern interior of British Columbia and is the largest lake in the Okanagan Valley. Approximately 6,188 km2 of land drain into the lake, which has a total surface area of 351 km2. The lake is long and thin, measuring 120 km in length and ranging between 3 and 5 km in width. The depth of the lake is highly variable, with a mean depth of 76 m and a maximum depth of 230 m. Okanagan Lake is heavily used for recreation and is believed by some to be the home of the mythical Ogopogo creature.

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    Okanagan Valley

    The Okanagan Valley is in south-central British Columbia, extending about 200 km north from the American border.

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    Okotoks

    Okotoks, Alberta, incorporated as a town in 1904, population 30,214 (2021 census), 28,833 (2016 census). The town of Okotoks is located 20 km south of Calgary.

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    Old Crow

    Old Crow, Yukon, settlement, population 236 (2021 census), 221 (2016 census). Old Crow is located in northern Yukon on the confluence of the Porcupine and Old Crow rivers, and 112 km inside the Arctic Circle. 

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    Old Crow Basin

    Old Crow Basin is an important geographic feature in the natural history and human history of Canada. It is the largest of four interior lowland areas within northern Yukon. Sediments washed into these basins built up deep deposits that buried and preserved the remains of many varieties of plants and animals, creating a fossil record locked in permafrost and spanning more than a million years. 

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    Old Crow Plain

    The Old Crow Plain, about 5,000 km2, elevation 300 m, referred to locally as Old Crow Flats, is the northernmost part of the Porcupine Plateau in the Yukon, lying north of the Arctic Circle and 150 km south of the Beaufort Sea. The plain is a pristine wilderness area underlain by continuous permafrost and covered with a myriad of shallow lakes and ponds, some of which have an oriented rectangular shape related to prevailing wind directions and to patterned ground phenomena, (e.g., ice polygons and wedges). Its name honours the memory of a chieftain of the Gwich'in tribe.

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