Beaver Lake, Ontario

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Beaver Lake is a community in the Ontario city of Greater Sudbury.

From 1973 to 2000, Beaver Lake was part of the town of Walden, in the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. On January 1, 2001, the Regional Municipality was dissolved into the single-tier City of Greater Sudbury.

The name "Beaver Lake" refers, generally, to the westernmost end of the former Town of Walden, along Highway 17 in the geographic township of Lorne, west of Whitefish. Like many communities in Northern Ontario, the modern history of Beaver Lake started with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the area in the late 1880s. With the discovery of nickel deposits bringing jobs and settlers to the Sudbury area, Finnish immigrants in particular settled in the Beaver Lake area, south of the CPR line between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie. Many roads in the area have Finnish names to this day.

Beaver Lake has never been incorporated as a municipality in its own right. Prior to the 1973 creation of the regional municipality of Sudbury and the town of Walden, Beaver Lake was simply an unincorporated settlement in the Sudbury District.

Addresses in the community are given as part of Worthington; both Worthington and Beaver Lake are within the Whitefish telephone exchange.