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The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) is an inter-municipal environmental protection and advisory agency that works with local municipalities, government agencies, special interest groups and the general public to protect the natural resources of the Rideau River watershed.
It lies at the west end of Upper Rideau Lake, [2] at the head of the navigable Rideau Canal system, 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Ottawa. The village of Westport was incorporated as an independent municipality in 1904. Surrounded by the Township of Rideau Lakes, within Leeds County, Westport is Ontario's smallest municipality (by land area).
Rideau Lakes is a township located within Leeds and Grenville United Counties in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The township was incorporated on 1 January 1998 by amalgamating the former townships of North Crosby, South Crosby, Bastard, South Burgess and South Elmsley with the village of Newboro.
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Rideau is an historic township in eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located in the rural parts of the City of Ottawa , in the extreme south. Its eastern boundary is the Rideau River , its namesake.
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The lake was a bit smaller, and 8 feet (2 m) lower, than it is today. The name, Sand Lake, first appears on an 1816 map of the Rideau waterway drawn by Lieutenant Joshua Jebb, Royal Engineer. In about 1820, settler Walter Davis Jr., set up a sawmill on the rapids between Opinicon Lake and Sand Lake in the location occupied by today's Davis Lock ...
Big Rideau Lake is a lake in the municipalities of Tay Valley and Drummond/North Elmsley, Lanark County and Rideau Lakes, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville in Eastern Ontario, Canada. [3] The lake is on the border between the two counties, 72 kilometres (45 mi) to the southwest of Ottawa .