Virginiatown, Beaver

The beaver is probably Northern Ontario's most industrious worker and while a lot of people consider the beaver as a pest, it creates wetlands and ponds by constructing dams, for use by ducks, moose and other wildlife. Beaver houses and ponds also make for great fishing areas as bait fish use this type of area for cover, thereby, larger fish are normally around a beaver house. Although dams sometimes cause local flooding of back roads and highways, these dams help reduce the flooding downstream and help the control runoff caused by heavy rains. A beaver dam of more than 300 m (1000 ft.) long was found in Colorado USA at the Rocky Mountain National Park. Vistors coming to the Virginiatown area, which is located 40km (25 miles) east of Kirkland Lake and 250km north of North Bay Ontario are bound to see northern Ontario's most industrious worker at work.

• Normally every couple of years the township declares Lake Front, waterfront and Wilderness properties up for owed back taxes. These properties provide excellent fishing opportunities and you can fish for walleye, bass, lake trout, perch, brook trout and northern pike. One of these properties on Larder Lake has ~1/2 mile of excellent shore line with large flat areas for at least five or six good sized cottage lots. Normally they only post these properties in the local newspaper for 30 days or so and in the past very few people knew that they were for sale/bid. We are unsure when the next properties will be up for sale/bid as they like to keep it quite. When more are available we will post them on the Real Estate site.
• The Wilderness properties comprise of a few acres to possibly 100's of acres by combining several adjoining properties. The area is an excellent area for partridge, rabbit, moose and black bear. Non-residents should note that the current hunting regulations for non-resident property owners allows you to hunt black bear on your property without having to use a guide or outfitter.

For more information view the Northeastern Ontario Real Estate site

This is a very detailed map of northeastern Ontario. It shows all of the hwy's, secondary roads, cities and towns, rivers, lakes, railways, etc. in Northern Ontario.

Le castor est sans doute le plus laborieux des animaux du nord. Malgré l'étiquette de peste par certains il n'en reste que le castor contribue beaucoup à la vie aquatique du nord par le biais de la construction de barrages utilisés par l'orignal, les canards et autres habitants fauniques. Les hutes de castor sont aussi de bons abris pour les plus gros poissons dans les marais. Même si les barrages causent des inondages de chemins et de sentiers il est aussi important de remarquer que les barrages servent de contrôle pour les inondations suite aux pluies abondantes. On a même retrouvé un barrage d'une longueur de 300 m au Colorado (E.U.).

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