"The Kawartha lakes area
has very interesting history."
The more interesting local people we talk to, the more we learn about the Kawartha Lakes area and it's history.
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Posted January 12 2010 - Paul Callaway
- I received a
very interesting book on my last birthday called "Trent-Severn Waterway Then
and Now". It was written by Elizabeth Bower and photography by John
McQuarrie published in 2009 by Magic Light Publishing.
The book contains many historic and modern pictures and stories about the
Trent-Severn Waterway.
I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to get the flavour and
history of the Kawartha lakes that are on the waterway system.
It would be an excellent addition to any boat cruise through the waterway.
DID YOU KNOW?
- "Kawartha" is an Anglicization of the word "Ka-wa-tha"
(from "Ka-wa-tae-gum-maug" or Gaa-waategamaag),
which was obtained during the 1950s by representatives of the
Village of Bobcaygeon from the Elders at Curve Lake.[1]
It was hoped that the word Gaa-waategamaag, which means "shining waters"
in the Anishinaabe language, would provide a convenient and popular
advertising label for the area, much as "Muskoka" had come to describe
the area and lakes north of Gravenhurst.
found at wikipedia
DID YOU KNOW?
-
Mossum Boyd made a 5800 word essay prepared for publication in 1902 and had the ambitious title - "Play-Ground of the Continent:
Kawartha Lakes means Bright Water and Happy Lands,
Where Nature Lies in Sweet Abandonment and Laughing
Waters Kiss a Hundred Shores."
click here
for more history about Mossum Boyd and the history in Bobcaygeon.
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