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You forgot some OTHER great cities....Cleveland, Erie, Milwaukee, Ohio, and Toledo......
The point of the posts was Canadian cities, and more specifically the idea in parts west of Ontario, that Ontario and more specifically Toronto, is self-absorbed and self-centred, and therefore nothing great can possibly exist west of Ontario/Toronto.
No insult intended to American cities on the Great Lakes.
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Look at me resurrecting a thread nearly ten years old! Just wanted to throw this out there; Lake Winnipeg is actually connected to the Great Lakes via shared basin/tributaries and the like.
It's okay, go back to collecting dust, sweet prince.
If any lake could be considered the 6th Great Lake it’s Lake st. Clair, it may not be huge, but it’s the only lake in the Great Lakes system that does not carry this moniker!
I created another thread some time ago and gave my opinion that Georgian Bay ought to be the sixth Great Lake. Lake Winnipeg is big in area but very shallow compared to the Great Lakes and its geographic history is different. It's a remnant of the extinct glacial Lake Agassiz as is the Lake of the Woods and Lake Winnipegosis.
One of the defining characteristics of the five Great Lakes (six if we include Lake St. Clair) is that they--and their watershed tributaries--all drain into the Atlantic Ocean, via the St. Lawrence River.
Lake Winnipeg does not. It, and its tributaries, drains into Hudson Bay, and is thus part of the Arctic Ocean watershed. In other words, Lake Winnipeg is entirely separate from the Great Lakes system. There is a continental divide in northern Ontario, where water flows roughly north to the Arctic Ocean; instead of south to join the Great Lakes system.
Thus, Lake Winnipeg, while impressive size-wise, cannot be considered a Great Lake in the sense that Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (and possibly Lake St. Clair) are. It drains to an entirely different place.
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