Bobcaygeon

Bobcaygeon is a network on the Trent-Severn Waterway in the City of Kawartha Lakes, east-focal Ontario, Canada. Bobcaygeon was consolidated as a town in 1876, and ended up known as the "Center point of the Kawarthas". Its recorded name bounce ca-je-wan-unk comes either from the Mississauga Ojibway word baabaagwaajiwanaang "at the simple shallow streams", giishkaabikojiwanaang "at the cliffed falls" or obaabikojiwanaang "at currented rough limits", or from the French playmate bocage "lovely supported farmland".

The principal secure in the Trent-Severn Waterway was worked in Bobcaygeon in 1833. The town is arranged on three islands, alongside the primary land. Bobcaygeon's central industry is tourism, especially identified with recreational angling. Bobcaygeon is a center point for the locale, giving a significant number of the administrations inaccessible in the littler neighboring networks. Samuel de Champlain went through Bobcaygeon with a band of Hurons amid his 1615 military undertaking.

By the mid 1830s, the legislature of Upper Canada had finished its study of the Township of Verulam and the region started to pull in pioneers. Thomas Need, who landed in 1832 is perceived as one of the soonest pioneers of the Township of Verulam and is the author of Bobcaygeon. With his buy of 3000 sections of land 12 km² of land, Need manufactured a sawmill, gristmill, and the primary store. In 1833, the common government started development of a bolt and trench at the strait among Sturgeon and Pigeon Lakes. This was the principal bolt built on the Trent-Severn Waterway.