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The City of Kawartha Lakes (2021 population 79,247 [2]) is a single-tier municipality in Central Ontario, Canada. Though structured as a single-tier municipality, Kawartha Lakes is the size of a typical Ontario county and is mostly rural. It is the second largest single-tier municipality in Ontario by land area (after Greater Sudbury).
The Kawartha Lakes (/kə'wɔrθɐ/) are a chain of lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada that form the upper watershed of the Trent River.The lakes are located on the boundary between the Paleozoic limestone regions of the Golden Horseshoe, and the Precambrian granite Canadian Shield of northern and central Ontario.
It is the highest point to which a vessel can be navigated from sea level in the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River drainage basin. The main outflow, at the east, is the Rosedale River and Trent Canal leading to Cameron Lake. [1] [2] The village of Coboconk is located on the north side of the lake.
The Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act of 2001 stipulates that any development in the moraine or nearby areas must satisfy several conditions, most prominently that each development leave a buffer zone of 30 m between it and any hydrological feature; for a kettle lake, this measure is from the edge of the lake's catchment area.
The Township of Dalton was a municipality located in the northwest corner of the former Victoria County, now a geographic township in the city of Kawartha Lakes, in the Canadian province of Ontario. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was named after John Dalton (1766–1844), an English scientist who contributed to the foundations of atomic theory.
Four Mile Lake is a closed lake system with no navigable access to other lakes. The lake provides a community to approximately 450 cottages and homes. Four Mile Lake is located near a rare biological environment phenomenon known as alvars .
Hartley Road (Kawartha Lakes Road 3) crossing Mitchell Lake. The City of Kawartha Lakes was formed on January 1, 2001, and was known as Victoria County before that. [9] Alongside this change, all Victoria County Roads received Kawartha Lakes Road designations, with unchanged numbers, [1] and many new routes were established. [10] [11]
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.