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Bobcaygeon is a village on the Trent-Severn Waterway in east-central Ontario, Canada. Lock One on the Trent-Severn Waterway The Trent-Severn Waterway is a canal system formerly used for commercial purposes but now exclusively for pleasure boats connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to Lake Huron at Port Severn. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th)  - Land 917,741 km²  - Water 158,654 km² (14. ...

Known as the "Hub of the Kawarthas," it is part of the amalgamated City of Kawartha Lakes. Its name comes from the Mississauga word bobcajewanunk, which means "shallow rapids". The Mississaugas are a native people located in Southern Ontario. ...

Founding

In 1833, shortly after the settlement of this region began, Thomas Need settled here at "Bobcaygeon", the narrows between Sturgeon and Pigeon Lakes. When the government began the construction in that year of a small lock and canal, Need surveyed a village plot, which was named Rokeby by Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Colborne but was still commonly called Bobcaygeon. Need later opened a store and erected a sawmill and a grist-mill. By 1857 the community contained only 150 inhabitants, but subsequently its growth was stimulated by the construction of the Bobcaygeon Colonization Road and by the development of the large lumbering business of Mossom Boyd and his son. Bobcaygeon, with a population of about 1,000 was incorporated as a Village by a Victoria County By-law of 1876. (The text above appears on a historical plaque erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation at the library in Bobcaygeon.) Canal locks in England. ... Categories: Water-transport stubs | Canals | Water transport ... John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton (February 16, 1778 - April 17, 1863), British field marshal, was born at Lyndhurst, Hants and entered the 2Oth (Lancashire Fusiliers) in 1794, winning thereafter every step in his regimental promotion without purchase. ... This article or section should include material from Saw mill A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards. ... A grist mill is a place where grains are ground into flour. ... Victoria County was a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. ...

External links

• Village of Bobcaygeon (http://www.kawartha.net/~bobcom/)
• Bobcaygeon Chamber of Commerce (http://www.bobcaygeon.org/)
• Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger (http://www.galenfrysinger.com/bobcaygeon_ontatio.htm)