The Great Lakes Region includes the Canadian Province of Ontario, and the eight U.S. states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania. The region geographically borders the Great Lakes and forms a distinctive historical, economic, and political bi-national history, culture, and political economy.
The Great Lakes Basin is the corresponding geological definition. It is much smaller than the geo-political...
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The Great Lakes Region includes the Canadian Province of Ontario, and the eight U.S. states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania. The region geographically borders the Great Lakes and forms a distinctive historical, economic, and political bi-national history, culture, and political economy.
The Great Lakes Basin is the corresponding geological definition. It is much smaller than the geo-political boundaries defined by states and provinces, because the Great Lakes' watershed is constricted by the surrounding, more comprehensive drainages of Hudson Bay, and the drainages of the Mississippi-Ohio and Hudson-Mohawk river systems.
For the first time since the imperial reigns of France, then Britain, The Great Lakes have a formal, instituted government. The Great Lakes Commission, now authorized by the eight American states and Ontario, confirmed by the Canadian and American federal governments, finally institutes what has always been, in...
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