This map shows the provincial and federal data the connectivity map builds on. It covers protected and conserved areas, provincially significant wetlands, areas of natural and scientific interest, built-up areas and roads across the 40 km study area around the Greenbelt. The connectivity regions, focal areas and model results will be added in later phases. Click anything on the map for details.
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Study area: 40 km around the Greenbelt, the extent of the strategy’s connectivity model.
Data layers
The older provincial Built Up Area layer (SOLRIS-derived, mapped 2008 to 2012), outlined to compare with the Ontario Land Cover 2020 areas. It counts towns and cities; it leaves out most aggregate pits, golf courses and streets outside built-up blocks.
260 features
Earth science areas of natural and scientific interest: landforms and geology.
452 features
Life science areas of natural and scientific interest: representative ecosystems and habitats.
727 features
Provincially significant wetlands, evaluated under the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System.
10 features
Federal: national parks and national wildlife areas, and national historic sites and a public port that CPCAD counts as conserved.
60 features
Provincial parks and conservation reserves.
189 features
Conservation authority lands.
523 features
Land trusts, NGOs and privately protected areas.
118 features
Municipal natural areas.
Built-up area, impervious: buildings, pavement, streets, mines and aggregate pits (Ontario Land Cover 2020).
Built-up area, pervious: green space within development, such as parks, golf courses, playing fields and lawns (Ontario Land Cover 2020).
These are the supplementary layers recommended for the connectivity map as a concise starting point. Each comes from its publisher’s open data, cut to the strategy’s study area: 40 km around the Greenbelt, the range the connectivity model can be read reliably. Roads are the exception: they run across the whole map for orientation.
Protected and conserved areas come from CPCAD (December 2025), reduced to the study area and grouped by owner. In the strategy’s resistance layer, natural cover inside a protected area was given the lowest resistance score (0.1); natural cover without legal protection scored 1. Some conservation lands are not in CPCAD.
Provincially significant wetlands are selected from the provincial Wetland layer by their evaluated significance, because Ontario GeoHub does not publish them as a separate layer. Wetlands are grouped by complex name. Many smaller wetlands have never been evaluated.
ANSIs are areas of natural and scientific interest identified by the Ministry of Natural Resources. Earth science ANSIs (landforms and geology) are off at first; switch them on in the layer list.
Built-up areas come from the 2020 baseline of Ontario Land Cover (Ministry of Natural Resources, 15 m). Impervious is its anthropogenic class: residential, industrial, commercial and civic areas, and also mines and aggregate pits, which it doesn’t separate. Streets count where they join built-up areas of 9 ha or more; rural roads are left to the road layer. Pervious is its built-up pervious class: parks, golf courses, playing fields, lawns and rights-of-way. These are broader than the older SOLRIS-based Built-Up Area layer (2008–2012), so the shares are higher than that layer gave (4.7% of the Greenbelt then) and aren’t a measure of growth. Shapes follow the 15 m grid of the land cover.
Built-up area, SOLRIS (2008–2012) is the provincial Built Up Area layer recommended for the map, derived from the Southern Ontario Land Resource Information System. It is off at first and drawn as an orange outline so it can be compared with the Ontario Land Cover areas underneath. Its impervious and pervious parts are shown as one outline.
Roads are every road in the Ontario Road Network (Ministry of Transportation, October 2026 extract) across the map and the 40 km study area, drawn by the ORN road class: freeways, highways and ramps; arterials; collectors; and local, service, lane and resource roads. Names and route numbers are the ORN official street names and route numbers covering most of each road segment. Provincial highways at small scales are traced from the ORN by route number, so they run unbroken through towns and connecting links. Lines are within about 2 m of the ORN. Winter roads and rapid transit lines are left out; roads in the United States are not shown.
This is regional-scale information. It is not for navigation and not for decisions about individual properties.
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Protected areas, wetlands and ANSIs on this mapProtected and conserved areas, provincially significant wetland complexes and ANSIs within the study area. Features that cross the study area line are cut at it, and their hectares are the part inside. Choose a row to zoom to it.
Name
Layer
Hectares in study area
Owner
On the map
Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park (Natural Environment Class)
LayerProvincial parks and conservation reserves
Hectares in study area25,712.7
OwnerProvince of Ontario
Bruce Peninsula National Park Of Canada
LayerFederal protected areas
Hectares in study area12,520.0
OwnerParks Canada Agency
Fathom Five National Marine Park Of Canada
LayerFederal protected areas
Hectares in study area11,350.0
OwnerParks Canada Agency
Cabot Head
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area8,299.7
Owner
Minesing Swamp Complex (SP6)
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area7,066.4
Owner
Speed Lutteral Swan Creek Wetland Complex
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area5,820.3
Owner
Minesing Swamp
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area5,698.8
Owner
Cabot Head ES
LayerEarth science ANSIs
Hectares in study area5,059.7
Owner
Rouge National Urban Park
LayerFederal protected areas
Hectares in study area4,551.0
OwnerParks Canada Agency
Cabot Head Provincial Park (Nature Reserve Class)
LayerProvincial parks and conservation reserves
Hectares in study area4,514.1
OwnerProvince of Ontario
Minesing Wetlands Conservation Area
LayerConservation authority lands
Hectares in study area4,300.0
OwnerNottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority
Kahshe Lake Barrens
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area4,271.3
Owner
Luther Marsh
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area4,029.8
Owner
Luther Marsh
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area3,932.9
Owner
Johnston Harbour Pine Tree Point
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area3,905.2
Owner
Murray Marsh
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area3,762.5
Owner
Bruce County Forest Miller Lake Tract
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area3,695.3
Owner
Christian Islands
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area3,527.0
Owner
Central Whiteman's/Horner Creek Complex (GR 4)
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area3,473.1
Owner
Zephyr Creek Swamp
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area3,319.6
Owner
Kahshe Lake Barrens Conservation Reserve
LayerProvincial parks and conservation reserves
Hectares in study area3,169.0
OwnerProvince of Ontario
Rankin River Wetland
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area3,110.3
Owner
Eramosa River Blue Springs Creek Wetland Complex
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area3,066.2
Owner
Scugog Marsh
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area2,985.1
Owner
Melancthon Wetland Complex #1 (MN1)
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,822.4
Owner
Cabot Head Inland Lakes
LayerEarth science ANSIs
Hectares in study area2,806.5
Owner
Beverly Swamp Wetland Complex
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,756.7
Owner
Zephyr-Egypt Wetland Complex
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,700.3
Owner
Nonquon River Wetlands
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area2,641.0
Owner
Beaverton River Wetland Complex
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,589.0
Owner
Lake Scugog Marsh (Osler Marsh)
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,554.0
Owner
Hatherton Wetlands
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area2,449.2
Owner
Holland River Marsh
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area2,404.1
Owner
Murray Marsh
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,394.6
Owner
Dalrymple Lake (RM3)
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,337.3
Owner
Emily Creek No. 2
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,302.9
Owner
East Cross Creek No.15
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,171.5
Owner
Hatherton Wetland
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,128.1
Owner
Nonquon River Wetland #7
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,077.7
Owner
Whitemans Creek Kenny Creek Wetland Complex
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,071.3
Owner
Pigeon River No. 20
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area2,036.9
Owner
Eugenia Lake Drumlins
LayerEarth science ANSIs
Hectares in study area1,980.7
Owner
Lower Twenty Mile Creek Wetland Complex
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area1,965.0
Owner
Ganaraska Forest & Headwaters
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area1,960.5
Owner
Black River Wetland Complex #1
LayerProvincially significant wetlands
Hectares in study area1,938.9
Owner
Albion Hills Forest
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area1,926.0
Owner
Ganaraska Forest West of Carmel
LayerLife science ANSIs
Hectares in study area1,925.9
Owner
Carden Alvar Provincial Park (Natural Environment Class)
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