Rice Lake (Ontario)
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Rice Lake is a lake located in Northumberland and Peterborough counties in south-eastern Ontario. The lake is located south of the city of Peterborough, and the Kawartha Lakes and north of Cobourg. It
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Cobourg and Peterborough Railway bridge on Rice Lake, which was built in 1854 and lasted only six years.
Ice on Rice Lake, seen from Courtis Point.
Wild rice
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Wild rice, also called manoomin, mnomen, psíŋ, Canada rice, Indian rice, or water oats, is any of four species of grasses that form the genus Zizania, and the grain that can be harvested from them. Th
Rice Lake (Ontario)
…has terminus at the Trent River. A narrow corridor to the south of Rice Lake connects these wedges. Rice Lake is fairly shallow and was named for the wild rice which grew in it and was harvested by native people of the area. Most of the extensive stands of wild rice originally found in here were wiped out when…
Zizania palustris
A 19th century illustration of Native Americans harvesting wild rice
Ojibwa pouch for holding wild rice, cedar bark, American Museum of Natural History
Processed wild rice