Bobcaygeon, Ontario
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This article is about the village of Bobcaygeon. "Bobcaygeon" is also a song by The Tragically Hip, which takes its name from the village.
Bobcaygeon is a village of 2500 people on the Trent-Severn Waterway in east-central Ontario, Canada.
It was incorporated as village in 1876, and became known as the "Hub of the Kawarthas". It is now part of the amalgamated City of Kawartha Lakes. Its name comes from the Anishnawbe word bobcajewanunk, which means "shallow rapids which drop over a small shelf of rock".
The Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip have published a song that uses the village's name as its title.
History
In 1833, shortly after the settlement of this region began, Thomas Need settled here at "Bobcaygeon", the narrows between Sturgeon and Pigeon Lakes. When the government began the construction in that year of a small lock and canal, Need surveyed a village plot, which was named Rokeby by Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Colborne but was still commonly called Bobcaygeon. Need later opened a store and erected a sawmill and a grist-mill. By 1857, the community contained only 150 inhabitants, but subsequently its growth was stimulated by the construction of the Bobcaygeon Colonization Road and by the development of the large lumbering business of Mossom Boyd and his son. Bobcaygeon, with a population of about 1,000 was incorporated as a Village by a Victoria County By-law of 1876. (The text above appears on a historical plaque erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation at the library in Bobcaygeon.)Its chief industry now is tourism, in particular fishing-related tourism, and is a service centre for farmers and cottagers (i.e., those who own recreational properties) in the area.
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