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The Kawartha lakes with Jack Lake (P). Jack Lake is a lake and reservoir in the municipalities of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen and North Kawartha in Central Ontario, Canada. It lies about 160 km (100 mi) northeast of Toronto, at the edge of the Canadian Shield in the northeastern portion of the Kawartha Lakes region.
Little Lake is used for swimming, fishing and boating, including power boats, kayaks, canoes and windsurfers. [6] Anglers may catch bass, walleye, perch and muskie in the lake. [3] There is a small marina on the lake in downtown Peterborough with 92 open slips where boats may be moored on a daily, weekly or seasonal basis. [9]
Chemong Lake, or Lake Chemong, (pronounced "shi-MONG, from the Anisnaabemowin gchi-maang, meaning "big lake")" is a lake 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) northwest of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, near the town of Bridgenorth. [1] The lake extends from near Fowlers Corners north to near Curve Lake. Lake Chemong has a length of 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) and ...
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The Otonabee River is a river in Peterborough County in Central Ontario, Canada. [1] The river flows from Katchewanooka Lake, at the north end of the community of Lakefield, through the city of Peterborough to Rice Lake. It is in the Great Lakes Basin and forms part of the Trent-Severn Waterway.
The South End and Downtown portions of the city sit on what was the bottom of the glacial Lake Peterborough—part of a glacial spillway created when glacial meltwaters from ancient Lake Algonquin (now Lake Huron) travelled south to ancient Lake Iroquois (now Lake Ontario). This area of relatively low and flat relief (approximately 191–200 m ...
On 30 May 1855 the Peterborough & Chemong Lake Railway (P&CL) was chartered to connect to the canal system at Lake Chemong, northwest of Peterborough. By the summer of 1859 four miles had been completed from the east side of the Otonabee River across a bridge built between 1867 and 1871, where it crossed the Midland Railway of Canada 's branch ...
Peterborough County is a county and census division located in Southern Ontario, Canada. The county seat is the City of Peterborough , which is independent of the county. The southern section of the county is mix of agriculture, urban and lakefront properties.