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Lake Simcoe's name was given by John Graves Simcoe in 1793 in memory of his father, Captain John Simcoe. Captain Simcoe was born on 28 November 1710, in Staindrop, in County Durham, northeast England, and served as an officer in the Royal Navy, dying of pneumonia aboard his ship, HMS Pembroke, on 15 May 1759.
Lake Area Notes 1 3 Lake Superior ... Lake Simcoe: 744 km 2 (287 sq mi) 219 m (719 ft) 41 m (135 ft) 11.6 km 3 (2.8 cu mi) Big Trout Lake: 661 km 2 (255 sq mi) 213 m ...
The corridor of Crown land between Lake Couchiching, and the Severn River was informally given to the Chippewas as a hunting ground, but in 1836 a deal was struck to return this territory (including the two villages) to government hands, leaving the Chippewas with the Lake Simcoe islands as their last remaining reserve. Yellowhead and his band ...
5 Big Gull Lake - East End. 6 Big Rideau Lake. 7 Buckhorn Lake. 8 Cataraqui River. ... 41 Lake Simcoe. 42 Skootamatta Lake. 43 Lake Saint Clair (North America) 44 St ...
Simcoe Island is a small island approximately six kilometres (3.7 mi) long, and one point five kilometres (0.93 mi) across at its widest point, in Lake Ontario, just off Wolfe Island, close to Kingston, Ontario, and Amherst Island.
Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]
The lake lies in the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben, a Mesozoic rift valley that formed 175 million years ago. Lake Simcoe, connected to Georgian Bay by the Severn River, serves as part of the Trent–Severn Waterway, a canal route traversing Southern Ontario between Lakes Ontario and Huron.
Simcoe County is a county and census division located in the central region of ... Simcoe County stretches from the shores of Lake Simcoe in the east to Georgian Bay ...