Cambray is a community in
Kawartha Lakes
Kawartha Lakes (Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population: 79,247) is a List of municipalities in Ontario , single-tier municipality in Central Ontario, Canada. Though structured as a single-tier municipality, Kawartha Lakes is the size of a typica ...
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Ontario
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, situated at the intersection of Cambray Road and Elm Tree Road. It is on the main street connecting
Woodville to
Lindsay.
Originally a native encampment, Cambray was established as a mill site between Lindsay and Eldon Station. The first farm was owned by the Jarvis Family, followed by the Sinclair and Wilkinson families.
[Dyson & Freeborn "Times Gone By" (re: Downeyville, Cambray, Kirkfield and Cameron, Ontario)] It was located in
Fenelon Township
The Township of Fenelon was a municipality in present-day Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada. The township was named after François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (missionary) (1641–79) who was a missionary in New France, establishing a missio ...
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Victoria County until 2001, when it was reformed as Kawartha Lakes.
Joseph Wilkinson named the village and township because he admired the literary works of
François Fénelon
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, PSS (), more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of ' ...
, Archbishop of
Cambrai
Cambrai (, ; ; ), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river.
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He also founded one of the first mills in 1855.
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Communities in Kawartha Lakes