Trent Lakes

Trent Lakes
Municipality (lower-tier)
Municipality of Trent Lakes

Burleigh Falls
Trent Lakes
Coordinates: 44°40′N 78°26′W / 44.667°N 78.433°WCoordinates: 44°40′N 78°26′W / 44.667°N 78.433°W
Country  Canada
Province  Ontario
County Peterborough
Incorporated January 1, 1998
Government
 • Type Township
 • Mayor Bev Matthews
 • Federal riding Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock
 • Prov. riding Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock
Area[1]
 • Land 860.26 km2 (332.15 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 5,105
 • Density 5.9/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Postal Code K0L
Area code(s) 705
Website www.galwaycavendish
harvey.ca

Trent Lakes is a township in the rural, mostly wooded northern section of Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada.

The municipality was formed in 1998 as Galway-Cavendish and Harvey Township through an amalgamation of the township of Galway & Cavendish and the township of Harvey.

On February 19, 2013, the municipal council passed a bylaw to change the name of the township to the Municipality of Trent Lakes.[2]

Communities

The municipality comprises the communities of Buckhorn, Buckhorn Lake Estates, Burleigh Falls, Catchacoma, Crystal Lake, Ewan, Flynns, Fortescue, Kawartha Hideaway, Lakehurst, Mississauga Landing, Mount Irwin, Nogies Creek, Oak Shores Estates, Point Pleasant, Rockcroft and Sugar Bush.

Geography

Burleigh Falls in the rain

Trent Lakes is home to Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park, which is set around Catchacoma Lake and Mississauga Lake. Three violent summer wind storms have hit this area doing damage to property and forest, one in 1927, then 1995 and in 2006. The area is also a popular cottaging and recreational area.

The community is a scenic location where Paleozoic limestone formations yield to the underlying Precambrian bedrock of pink gneiss; as a result, it attracts a large number of summer residents and visitors. The lakes above and below the falls, and even the falls themselves, are studded with numerous pine-covered rocky islands, similar to the Thousand Islands region.

History

The area is rich in early First Nations sites, and many First Nations members live in the community year-round or seasonally on some of the islands in Lovesick Lake.

The old Harvey fire tower was located at the southern edge of Mississagua Lake (then known as Gull Lake). It was one of the 320 towers in the province used as an early warning in the detection of forest fires. Part of the Lindsay Forest District of towers this tower had its own phone line connection back to headquarters. The phone line still runs through the forest and up the hill to the old towers footings. In 1927 the Harvey tower was made of wood, but a hurricane came through and blew it over. Parts of the tower were found miles away. A newer wood tower was built in its place, that is, until 1938 when a light steel tower was erected. The tower system was abandoned by 1970 when aerial detection became favoured.

Demographics

Mother tongue:[3]

Population trend:[5]

Recreation

Trent-Severn Waterway Lock 31 in Buckhorn

Boaters use the Trent–Severn Waterway lock which raises boats 24 feet (7.3 m) from Stony Lake to Lovesick Lake.[6] Boat campers find the nearby Wolf Island Provincial Park an ideal secluded place to camp, free from the crowds found at road-access parks.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Galway-Cavendish and Harvey census profile". 2011 Census of Population. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  2. ↑ "Galway-Cavendish and Harvey Township to be renamed Trent Lakes Township". Peterborough Examiner, February 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "2006 Community Profiles". Canada 2006 Census. Statistics Canada. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  4. ↑ "2001 Community Profiles". Canada 2001 Census. Statistics Canada. February 17, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  5. ↑ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  6. ↑ "Lock 28 - Burleigh Falls". Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site of Canada. Parks Canada. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
  7. ↑ "Wolf Island". Ontario Parks. 2002-11-12. Retrieved 2009-05-08.

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