CANOE LAKE HISTORY

Location: Peck Township {Nipissing District)

"Named by surveyor Alexander Murray [in 1837] because he built a canoe on the shore, a very few miles from where David Thompson built his canoe. Both Murray and Thompson gave the name Canoe Lake to the lake on which they found cedar for the building of their canoes, but Murray's name has been retained for the northern one and Thompson's lake, immediately to the south, has been renamed South Tea Lake" (Source: Murray, F. (1963) The Publications of the Champlain Society: Muskoka and Haliburton 1615-1875. Toronto: The Champlain Society lxv.)

"Named by Alexander Murray during his geological expedition of 1853, because, after ascending the Oxtongue River, 'we were delayed several days to construct a new canoe'[ ... ] For many years during the operation of the railway, the name was applied to a station and to a post office" (Source: Friends of Algonquin Park (1993) Names of Algonquin: stories behind the lake and place names of Algonquin Provincial Park. Whitney, Ontario: The Friends of Algonquin Park.)

The above information came from: Discovering the (Hi)story of Haliburton Through Its Lakes' Names by Elinor Whidden, a student report prepared for Trent University- Bioregionalism Course, 1998. From the U-Links Centre for Community-Based Research Collection.