Chandos Lake is a lake in

North Kawartha, Ontario North Kawartha is a township in northern Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada. North Kawartha was formed in 1998 through an amalgamation of the Townships of Burleigh and Anstruther and the Township of Chandos. For a while after this merger, it ...

, Canada. The lake is in the shape of a reversed L, with three main bays: West Bay, connected to the main body of the lake by a long Narrows; South Bay, extending southwest and separated by a curved peninsula; and Gilmour Bay, a smaller, two-lobed bay on the southern tip of the lake, connected by Gilmour Bay Narrows. Chandos Lake is in the Atlantic watershed; fed by springs, it drains from its north end into Flat Creek, which flows into

Paudash Lake Paudash Lake is a lake in south central Ontario southwest of Bancroft, Ontario, Bancroft along Highway 28. The lake is located just north of Silent Lake Provincial Park in Haliburton County, Ontario, Haliburton County, south of the panhandle of Al ...

, thence to the

Crowe River The Crowe River is a river in the counties of Haliburton, Hastings, Northumberland and Peterborough in southern Ontario, Canada. It is in the Lake Ontario drainage basin and is a tributary of the Trent River. Course The river begins at Paudas ...

, the Trent River, and

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. Chandos is the largest lake in the Crowe River watershed. Chandos Lake measures 1,387 hectares and has a maximum depth of 48 metres. Chandos Lake was originally called Mongosogan by the

Mississauga Mississauga is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario. Situated on the north-western shore of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, it borders Toronto (Etobicoke) to the east, Brampton to the north, Milton to the northwest, ...

Anishinabe, on whose traditional territory it lies. Although not one of the

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 ...

proper, Chandos Lake is part of the Kawartha cottage country; the lake is lined with some 1,200 cottages. The lake features three marinas and a public beach. The towns of Apsley, Glen Alda, and

Lasswade Lasswade is a village and civil parish in Midlothian, Scotland, on the River North Esk, south of Edinburgh city centre, contiguous with Bonnyrigg and between Dalkeith to the east and Loanhead to the west. Melville Castle lies to the north ...

are located on or near the lake. County Roads 620 and 504 encircle the lake.

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Natural Resources Canada

Chandos Lake Property Owners Association
Lakes of Peterborough County {{Canada-lake-stub

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