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“IN IT FOR THE LONG RUN”
By Anna Guy in the iconic paintings of the Group of Seven who
repeatedly painted the region in the 1920s.
he Town of Marathon, ON, looms larger
on the Canadian culture than its size Located in the Region of Thunder Bay along the
would belie. A rural community of 3,500 north shore of the majestic Lake Superior, the
Tin northern Ontario, its landscape is town’s natural beauty is also the genesis of its
etched in the Canadian psyche from being portrayed prosperity, with the steady and well-managed use of
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