Arrifcial chanels for the river .
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Wilson Fall Ontario Canada
Wilson Fall is an ancient site having intelligent design and megalitic stones. Stones that build the fall are io two colors.There are visible canals probably build so that the fish could go up to the river. A new dam was build above this ancient fall by us the "civilized one" with no consideration for aquaric life.
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Potts Falls Ontario Canada
The waterfall that I used to call Little High Falls is now called Potts Falls. The waterfall that used to be called Potts Falls is now called Little High Falls. I have had the names flipped for many years! Thanks to users for pointing this out. This waterfall is proof that small can be absolutely beautiful! Located only a few minutes' walk from High Falls, just north of Bracebridge, this waterfall yields beautiful photographs.
A little wooden footbridge was built upstream of the falls several years ago. This doesn't ruin the picture but does take away from some of the serenity of the scene by giving tourists easy access to the waterfall. The site is well shaded, allowing beautiful mosses, ferns and sedges to surround the falls. But this also allows a TON of mosquitos to call this home, so be prepared if you visit in summer.
A little wooden footbridge was built upstream of the falls several years ago. This doesn't ruin the picture but does take away from some of the serenity of the scene by giving tourists easy access to the waterfall. The site is well shaded, allowing beautiful mosses, ferns and sedges to surround the falls. But this also allows a TON of mosquitos to call this home, so be prepared if you visit in summer.
Some Quick Facts
Ancient Stone buildings present
Monday, February 15, 2021
The Trent–Severn Waterway
Length386 km (240 miles)Maximum boat length84 ft 0 in (25.60 m)Maximum boat beam23 ft 0 in (7.01 m)Maximum boat draft2.4 m (8') Locks 1 – 19; 1.8 m (6') Locks 20 – 45Locks44StatusOpenHistoryConstruction began1833GeographyStart point
Bay of Quinte
End point Georgian Bay
Trent–Severn Waterway Legend Lock km Georgian Bay Highway 400 Port Severn swing bridge 45 Port Severn 387.1 44 Big Chute Marine Railway 374.1 43 Swift Rapids 361.2 Hamlet swing bridge 42 Couchiching 337.8 CNR swing bridge Highway 11 Lake Couchiching Highway 12 Lake Simcoe Lakeshore Road swing bridge Highway 12 41 Gamebridge 290.9 40 Thorah 289.8 39 Portage 289.1 38 Talbot 286.5 37 Bolsover 284.9 Boundary Road swing bridge Bolsover swing bridge 36 Kirkfield Lift Lock 272.6 Lake HuronLake Ontario watershed Balsam Lake 35 Rosedale 252.9 Cameron Lake 34 Fenelon Falls 247.2 Lake Scugog 33 Lindsay 251.6 Sturgeon Lake 32 Bobcaygeon 222.4 Bobcaygeon swing bridge Pigeon Lake Buckhorn Lake 31 Buckhorn 194.2 30 Lovesick 184.7 28 Burleigh Falls 181.8 Lock 28 foot bridge
The total length of the waterway is 386 kilometres (240 mi), beginning at Trenton, Ontario, with roughly 32 kilometres (20 mi) of man-made channels. There are 44 locks, including 36 conventional locks, two sets of flight locks, hydraulic lift locks at Peterborough and Kirkfield, and a marine railway at Big Chute which transports boats between the upper and lower sections of the Severn. The system also includes 39 swing bridges and 160 dams and control structures that manage the water levels for flood control and navigation on lakes and rivers that drain approximately 18,600 square kilometres (7,182 sq mi) of central Ontario's cottage country region, across four counties and three single-tier cities, an area that is home to more than a million Canadians.
It reaches its highest point of 256.3 metres (841 ft) at Balsam Lake, the highest point to which a vessel can be navigated from sea level in the Great Lakes–Saint Lawrence River drainage basin. The navigable summit of the Monongahela River (part of the Mississippi River drainage basin) at Fairmont, West Virginia is, at 263 metres (863 ft), the highest point in North America (the summit of the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal at its highest point of 406 metres (1,332 ft)[5] is higher still).
The Trent–Severn Waterway is managed by Parks Canada under the statutory authority of the Historic Canals Regulations (which outline and delegate the responsibilities for navigation, resource protection, dredge and fill operations, the operation of boater campgrounds, etc.). The 386-kilometre (240 mi) navigation corridor includes over 4,500 kilometres (2,796 mi) of shoreline and over 500 square kilometres (193 sq mi) of water. More than 125000 private and commercial properties abut the navigation corridor of the Trent–Severn Waterway. The Trent–Severn Waterway also has regulatory responsibility and authority under the Dominion Water Power Act for the 18 hydroelectric generating facilities located along its route.
Port Perry Ontario Canada
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Province | Ontario |
| Regional municipality | Durham |
| Township | Scugog |
| Settled | 1821 |
| Incorporated (village) | 1871 |
| Population (2016)[1] | |
| • Total | 9,453 |
| • Density | 1,207.2/km2 (3,127/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Forward sortation area | |
| Area code(s) | 905 and 289 |
| NTS Map | 031D02 |
| GNBC Code | FCIAS |
Port Perry serves as the administrative and commercial centre for the township of Scugog. The town is home to a 24-bed hospital (Lakeridge Health Port Perry), Scugog Township's municipal offices and many retail establishments. Port Perry serves as a hub for many small communities in the Scugog area, such as Greenbank, Raglan, Caesarea, Blackstock and Nestleton/Nestleton Station. The Great Blue Heron Charitable Casino is a major employer. Located at the basin of the Trent-Severn Waterways is Lake Scugog, one of Ontario's largest man-made lakes.
The Trent–Severn Waterway is a 386-kilometre-long canal route (240 miles) connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, at Port Severn. Its major natural waterways include the Trent River, Otonabee River, Kawartha Lakes, Lake Simcoe, Lake Couchiching and Severn River. Its scenic, meandering route has been called "one of the finest interconnected systems of navigation in the world".[1]
Port Perry's Victorian-era downtown is a tourist destination, with clothing stores, restaurants, cafés, bookstores, galleries and antique shops. In the summer, the town features the festivals Mississauga First Nation Pow Wow, the Highland Games, the Dragon Boat Races and StreetFest. Port Perry is also home to the Theatre on The Ridge summer theatre festival featuring 6 shows performed at Townhall 1873 during July and August. Its annual fair, held every Labour Day weekend, has been running for over 150 years. There are also golf courses, both public and private. Other attractions in Port Perry and surrounding area include the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino, Scugog Memorial Library (featuring the Kent Farndale Art Gallery), the Scugog Shores Historical Museum and the Town Hall 1873 Centre for the Performing Arts.
At many local farms, visitors may pick their own seasonal fruit (strawberries, raspberries, apples). In the summer, bass tournaments and lakeside activities are also featured.
The Lake Scugog shoreline offers two popular lakeside parks, Palmer and Birdseye. There are active fishing seasons, both winter and summer. In the winter months, Lake Scugog is dotted with ice-fishing huts and is a destination for ice fishermen and snowmobilers.
History
The area around Port Perry was first surveyed as part of Reach Township by Major Samuel Street Wilmot in 1809. The first settler in the area was Reuben Crandell, a United Empire Loyalist who built a homestead with his wife in May 1821. Their original home is still in use and can be seen on King Street between Prince Albert and Manchester. In November 1821, Lucy Ann Crandell became the first child of European descent born in the area. In 1831, Crandell and his family moved to a homestead at what became Crandell's Corners (later called Borelia).[3] It had its own Post Office, near the present-day junction of Queen Street and Highway 7A.
Settler Peter Perry laid out village lots on the shore of Lake Scugog in 1848 on the site of a former native village known as Scugog Village. The townsite was named Port Perry in 1852 and its first Postmaster was Joseph Bigelow. It was incorporated as a village in 1871. At the time there was an intense rivalry between Port Perry and two nearby towns, Prince Albert and Manchester. Expecting great things for "his" town, Peter Perry predicted that goats would eat grass off of Prince Albert's main street.[4]
At the time, Prince Albert sat astride a planked toll road running south to Whitby. Grain and lumber from areas throughout the area south-east of Lake Simcoe fed through Prince Albert, which was a major grain trading area. Perry and others in Port Perry felt a railway was a much better option, and Perry's prediction would eventually come true.
A group of local businessmen started the process of bringing the railway to the town in 1867, and the first train on the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway reached the terminus in Port Perry in 1872. In the following year the grain elevator was built, still standing today as Canada's oldest existing grain elevator.[5] Cargo from all over northern Ontario was shipped via the Trent-Severn Waterway to Port Perry via Lake Scugog, and then via the railway to Whitby, where it could be loaded onto the CP or CN mainlines running along the shore of Lake Ontario, or onto ships in Port Whitby. Businesses quickly moved out of Prince Albert and moved to Port Perry, leaving Prince Albert effectively a suburb of Port Perry today. The Port Perry Granary still stands as a tall sentinel on the shores of Lake Scugog and proud of being Canada's oldest grain elevator outlasting numerous fires and modern day demolition.
The village was amalgamated with Cartwright, Reach and Scugog Townships to form the Township of Scugog in 1974 upon the creation of the Regional Municipality of Durham.
An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected at the Scugog Shores Museum by the province to commemorate cartoonist Jimmy Frise's role in Ontario's heritage.[6]
Port Perry's Victorian-era downtown is a tourist destination, with clothing stores, restaurants, cafés, bookstores, galleries and antique shops. In the summer, the town features the festivals Mississauga First Nation Pow Wow, the Highland Games, the Dragon Boat Races and StreetFest. Port Perry is also home to the Theatre on The Ridge summer theatre festival featuring 6 shows performed at Townhall 1873 during July and August. Its annual fair, held every Labour Day weekend, has been running for over 150 years. There are also golf courses, both public and private. Other attractions in Port Perry and surrounding area include the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino, Scugog Memorial Library (featuring the Kent Farndale Art Gallery), the Scugog Shores Historical Museum and the Town Hall 1873 Centre for the Performing Arts.
At many local farms, visitors may pick their own seasonal fruit (strawberries, raspberries, apples). In the summer, bass tournaments and lakeside activities are also featured.
The Lake Scugog shoreline offers two popular lakeside parks, Palmer and Birdseye. There are active fishing seasons, both winter and summer. In the winter months, Lake Scugog is dotted with ice-fishing huts and is a destination for ice fishermen and snowmobilers.
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