Fairbank Lake is a lake in
Northern Ontario
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,
Canada
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, located within the
Walden
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region of
Greater Sudbury
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.
Located in the Fairbanks and Trill townships, it lies off
Regional Road 4 (Fairbank Lake Road), running north of
Ontario Highway 17. It is 55 kilometres west of downtown Sudbury. The lake is 705.1 hectares in size with a shoreline perimeter of 28.2 kilometres and a maximum depth of 43 metres.
The lake is home to Fairbank Provincial Park, a 105-hectare recreational-class
provincial park
Ischigualasto Provincial Park
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.
History
The lake was originally named Wa-Shai-Ga-Mog (Clear Lake) by the Ojibwe or
Anishinaabe
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nation.
According to the Fairbank Lake Camp Owner's Association, they had settled on the south west corner of the lake and traded at a
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay ( crj, text=ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, translit=Wînipekw; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, translit=Kangiqsualuk ilua or iu, text=ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, translit=Tasiujarjuaq; french: b ...
trading post near
Whitefish. The discovery of virgin white pine in 1872 resulted in lumbering activities on the south shore. The lake was officially named Fairbank Lake in 1883 after
John Henry Fairbank, who was an MP for
Lambton East
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The East Riding of the county of Lambton was ...
.
Islands
Fairbank lake contains 8 islands.
*Chapman Island
*Fairbank Island
*Hiram Hixon Island
*Maplegrove Island
*Pine Island
*Swanson Island
*Traverse Island
*Wittie Island
See also
*
List of lakes in Ontario
References
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External links
National Resources Canada
Lakes of Greater Sudbury