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Stony Lake
Boat landing on Stony Lake, one of the Kawartha Lakes, southeastern Ontario, Canada.
Kawartha Lakes
lakes, Ontario, Canada
Kawartha Lakes, chain of 14 lakes in southeastern Ontario, Canada. They stretch across Peterborough and Victoria counties, just north and west of Peterborough and 30β70 miles (50β115 km) northeast of Toronto. Ranging in size from 2 to 18 square miles (5 to 47 square km), the lakes form a major link in the Trent Canal, a waterway connecting Georgian Bay in Lake Huron with Lake Ontario. The lakes are Scugog, Sturgeon, Cameron, Balsam, Pigeon, Bald, Sandy, Buckhorn, Chemong, Deer, Lovesick, Stony, Clear, and Katchewanooka. Once the centre of a lumbering region, the lakes now constitute a popular summer-resort region noted for canoeing, boating, and fishing. Kawartha is a Huron Indian word meaning βbright waters and happy lands.β
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