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Frenchman's Bay is a body of water in Pickering, Ontario, Canada, believed to be named for François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon.
The bay was once land locked before a canal was dug into the sandbar to allow vessels to serve what was then referred to as Port Liverpool in 1843.
Besides water flowing in from
Frenchman's Bay is a body of water in Pickering, Ontario, Canada, believed to be named for François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon.
The bay was once land locked before a canal was dug into the sandbar to allow vessels to serve what was then referred to as Port Liverpool in 1843.
History
The bay was likely not visited by the namesake French missionary who is believed to have visited the mouth of the Rouge River further west in 1669. The area around the Frenchman's Bay was settled in 1837 with saw mill opened by Tripp family. Grain mills were later opened with wharf located on the north end. In 1853 Pickering Harbour Company was incorporated and continues to control water lots on the east side today. Icehouses were operated by Lake Simcoe Ice from 1914 to the 1930s. Today the east end is home to Frenchmans Bay Marina, residential homes (including newer townhouses along Liverpool Road) Slightly east of the bay isPickering Nuclear Generating Station
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Pickering, Ontario. It is one of the oldest nuclear power stations in the world and Canada's third-largest, consisting of eigh ...
, while west side is home to Pickering Bay Yacht Club, Frenchman's Bay Canoe Club.
Today
The residential neighborhoods of Bay Ridges and West Shore surround the bay, but the houses along the bay are part of Fairport. The bay itself and the nature preserve both fall under the authority of theToronto and Region Conservation Authority
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) is a conservation authority in southern Ontario, Canada. It owns about of land in the Toronto region, and it employs more than 400 full-time employees and coordinates more than 3,000 voluntee ...
.
A number of city parks are found around the bay:
* Beachfront Park
* Bruce Hanscombe Memorial Park
* Douglas Park
* Glen Ravine Park
* Millennium Park
* Progress Frenchman's Bay East Park
* Rotary Frenchman's Bay West Park
* Vistula Ravine
Watershed
Besides water flowing in from Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border ...
via the channel the bay is fed by a few creeks emptying into it:
* Amberlea Creek (flows above ground at Vistula Creek Park)
* Dunbarton Creek
* Krosno Creek
* Pine Creek
The north end of the bay is a marsh.
References
External links
* {{coord, 43, 49, 03, N, 79, 05, 33, W, type:waterbody_region:CA-ON, display=title Ports and harbours of Ontario Pickering, Ontario