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Belleville Belleville, county seat of Hastings County, is located on the Bay of Quinte at the mouth of the Moira River. Its products are machinery, tools, radios, canned goods, paper boxes and clothing. Nearby are located a large distillery and a cement plant. The city is noted as the seat of Albert College and the Ontario School for the Deaf. Barrie Barrie, county seat of Simcoe county is located at the head of Kempenfeldt Bay, western arm of Lake Simcoe. It is 14 miles from Camp Borden, the largest permanent military camp in Canada, and during World War II its population was swollen to over 15,000. It has railway shops, meat packing plants, tanneries, textile factories and boat works. There are numerous summer resorts nearby. Orillia Orillia, situated at the narrows between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching, is the gateway to a great summer resort region. It is also a manufacturing town producing machinery, marine engines, electrical appliances, stoves, castings, beverages and boats. It has increased in population considerably in recent years. A large mental hospital is located here. Georgian Bay Ports There is an important group of ports at the southern end of Georgian Bay. Midland is the largest town on the Penetang Peninsula and has large shipyards and flour mills. Near Midland is the site old Fort Ste. Marie and the Martyr's Shrine, commemorating the death of the Jesuit missionaries in 1649. Penetanguishene, Victoria Harbour and Port McNicoll, are also lake ports on the peninsula. Collingwood is a busy port with large grain elevators and shipyards. Eastward, along the south shore of the bay, lies Wasaga Beach, to which many Toronto people migrate each summer. Other Centres South-central Ontario contains a number of small towns which act as local service centres and which have a certain amount of manufacturing activity. Almost any one of them might be the nucleus of a future industrial city. Trenton is situated at the outlet of the Trent River into the Bay of Quinte. Near it is a very large R.C.A.F. airport and training centre. Cobourg, Port Hope and Bowmanville lie along the shore of Lake Ontario between Trenton and Oshawa. Whitby in an old market centre, with some industries, a few miles east of Oshawa. Nearby is Ajax which was founded as a munitions centre during World War II and is now developing a number of new industries. West of the Toronto Metropolitan Area are Brampton, having the largest concentration of green-houses in Canada, and Oakville, on the shore of Lake Ontario, near which is the site of a large automobile factory. Home