Bruce County
Bruce County is a region in Ontario comprising the Bruce Peninsula, 2½ hr north and west of the city of Toronto. The Bruce Peninsula is a finger of land surrounded by the waters of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay from Sauble Beach to Tobermory, and Wiarton to Lion's Head.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Bruce Peninsula National Park and Saugeen Shores.
Bruce Peninsula National Park
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Bruce Peninsula National Park is a national park in Ontario, Canada. The park offers opportunities for many outdoor activities, including hiking, camping, and bird watching.
Saugeen Shores
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Saugeen Shores is a town in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. The town is popular with visitors because of its beaches on Lake Huron, and the availability of summer cottages.
Tobermory
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Tobermory is a small community in Southwestern Ontario at the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula on Georgian Bay. It is the northern terminus of the Bruce Trail and a popular diving destination - regarded by many as the freshwater diving capital of the world.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Lion’s Head and Kincardine.
Lion’s Head
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Lion's Head is a community in the municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the midway point of the Bruce Peninsula, about halfway between Owen Sound and Tobermory, just east of Ferndale on Bruce Road 9.
Kincardine
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Kincardine is a town of 12,000 people in Bruce County in southwestern Ontario, on the eastern shore of Lake Huron.
Brockton
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Brockton is a municipality of about 9800 people in Bruce County, Southwestern Ontario. It includes Walkerton and the villages in the former Brant and Greenock Townships.
Huron-Kinloss
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Huron-Kinloss is a township of about 8,000 people in Bruce County, Ontario. It is composed of several small communities: Amberley, Bruce Beach, Blair's Grove, Clarks Church, Clover Valley, Holyrood, Kinlough, Langside, Lower Langside, Lucknow, Lurgan Beach, Pine River, Point Clark, Purple Grove, Reid's Corners, Ripley, Verdun, and Whitechurch.
Bruce County
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula in Southern Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Bruce Peninsula”
- Location: Southwestern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Yue Chinese—“Bruce County” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Bryus yarımadası”
- Belarusian: “Брус”
- Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Брус”
- Cebuano: “Bruce Peninsula”
- Chinese: “布魯斯半島”
- Chinese: “布鲁斯半岛”
- Chinese: “索金半岛”
- Chinese: “索金半島”
- Danish: “Brucehalvøen”
- Dutch: “Bruce Peninsula”
- Finnish: “Brucen niemimaa”
- French: “péninsule Bruce”
- French: “Péninsule Bruce”
- French: “Péninsule de Bruce”
- French: “Péninsule-Bruce”
- German: “Bruce Peninsula”
- German: “Bruce-Halbinsel”
- Hebrew: “ברוס (חצי אי)”
- Italian: “Penisola di Bruce”
- Japanese: “ブルース半島”
- Korean: “브루스반도”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bruce Peninsula”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brucehalvøya”
- Norwegian: “Brucehalvøya”
- Polish: “Bruce Peninsula”
- Polish: “Bruce”
- Portuguese: “Península Bruce”
- Russian: “Брус (полуостров)”
- Russian: “Брус”
- Swedish: “Bruce Peninsula”
- Ukrainian: “Півострів Брюс”
- Yue Chinese: “布魯斯半島”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bruce County”. Photo: Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0.