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History of Kawartha Navigation,
Victoria County, Ontario Canada
Extending across Central Southern Ontario from the
Bay of Quinte to Georgian Bay is a chain of lakes and rivers by
which the Indian aborigines had from time immemorial trans-navigated
the province. Where this great canoe route crosses Victoria County,
its waters are known as the Kawartha lake system.
The history of navigation on this system is as old as human
occupation. While the Indians, however, were able to portage their
craft over watersheds and around falls and rapids, the heavier
draught boats gradually developed by white men made necessary a
system of locks and canals. The record of navigation on the Kawartha
lakes is, therefore, bound up intimately with the canalization of
the water route. The canal system, known today as the Trent Valley
Canal, has been under construction for 88 years, and is not yet
finished.
The first suggestion that such work be undertaken was made in 1827,
when a petition, signed by a Mr. Stewart and others, was presented
to the Legislature of Upper Canada. A committee was appointed by the
Lower House to consider the proposal and reported that it was
"exceedingly desirable and important that those waters which
constitute the chain of lakes and rivers which run in a south
easterly direction from Lake Simcoe and which empty into the Bay of
Quinte by the River Trent should be examined and surveyed by
competent persons with a view to ascertaining how far they might be
rendered navigable and the probable cost attending same."
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Victoria County, Ontario
Canada Centennial History, Watson Kirkconnell M.A., 1921
Victoria County
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