Southern Great Lakes forests Southern Great Lakes forests The Southern Great Lakes lowland forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion of North America, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. It lies mostly in the central northeastern United States and extends into southeast central Canada. This area includes the southern half of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, and much of Indiana and Ohio. It also extends through the southern half of Southwest Ontario from Windsor to Toronto and into Pennsylvania and New York on the southern rims of lakes Erie and Ontario. This region is characterized by warm-to-hot summers and mild-to-cold, snowy winters. This
Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Marine Museum of the Great Lakes The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes moved from the 1892 Kingston Dry Dock, a national historic site in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, when the federal government sold the property in 2016. The museum galleries are closed and the collections have been moved into storage until the museum finds a new property to reopen to the public. The Marine Museum office has moved to 53 Yonge Street, Kingston, Ontario. Once an important construction and repair facility for ships on the Great Lakes, the Kingston Dry Dock was constructed in 1890 by the Canadian federal government