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The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor is the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region of Canada. As its name suggests, the region extends between Quebec City in the northeast and Windsor, Ontario in the southwest, spanning . With more than 18 million people, it contains over half of the country's population and three of Canada's four largest metropolitan areas according to the 2011 Census. In its relative importance to the Canada's economic and political infrastructure, it has many similarities to the Northeast megalopolis in the United States. The name was first popularized by Via Rail, which runs frequent passenger rail service in the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor on its route named "The Corridor". ==Geography== The corridor extends from Quebec City, Quebec in the northeast to Windsor, Ontario in the southwest, running north of the Saint Lawrence River, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Significant urban areas along the corridor include: * Toronto * Montreal * Ottawa-Gatineau * Mississauga * Brampton * Quebec City * Hamilton * London * Kitchener-Waterloo * St. Catharines * Oshawa * Windsor * Kingston * Trois-Rivières Other significant urban areas along the corridor include: Lévis, Cornwall, Brockville, Belleville, Niagara Falls, Chatham–Kent, Sherbrooke, Laval, Gatineau, Peterborough, Cambridge, Guelph, Brantford, Barrie, and Sarnia. Cities located in neighbouring American regions (such as Western New York and Southeast Michigan) are not considered part of the corridor but have many significant cultural, economic, and political ties with urban areas on or near the border such as the Detroit–Windsor area. For most of its length, the corridor runs through a narrow strip of farmland with the Canadian Shield to the north and the Appalachian Mountains or the Great Lakes to the south. A drive of only a few minutes north from many of the corridor's cities or towns will show an abrupt change from flat farmland and limestone bedrock to the granite hills of the shield. The highways often run right on the boundary of the shield, and it is possible to observe the frequent change from limestone to granite in rockcuts along the way. There are, however, several wider areas of flat farmland, including the southwestern Ontario peninsula between Lake Huron and Lake Erie, the eastern Ontario delta from Ottawa to the junction of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers at Montreal, and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. There is also a minor Great Lakes corridor of stratified limestone called the Niagara Escarpment. Because of the moderating influence of the Great Lakes and the frequent influx of warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, the corridor—particularly the western half—has a markedly warmer climate than the rest of central Canada. The rich soil and the warm climate mean that the flora and fauna in the corridor are similar to those in the deciduous forests of the eastern United States as far south as Virginia, rather than the evergreen boreal forest that covers most of central Canada up to the Arctic. The forest in southwestern Ontario is often referred to as Carolinian forest. The majority of the Canadian population is situated along this corridor. For example, according to the 2006 Canadian Census, more than 67% of Ontario's population lives in its portion of the corridor. Similarly, nearly half of Quebec's population lives in or close to Montreal and Quebec City. About half of Canada's total population live between Quebec City and Windsor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quebec City–Windsor Corridor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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