Katchewanooka Lake is one of the

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in south-central

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. It is about long and wide. The

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flows through Lake Katchewanooka into the

Otonabee River The Otonabee River is a river in Peterborough County in Central Ontario, Canada. The river flows from Katchewanooka Lake, at the north end of the community of Lakefield, through the city of Peterborough to Rice Lake. It is in the Great Lakes B ...

at its outlet just north of Lakefield, continuing southwest through Little Lake in

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and on into Rice Lake.

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lies on the east side of the lake.

Susanna Moodie Susanna Moodie ( Strickland; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Family Susanna Moodie was born in Bungay, on th ...

, author of ''Roughing it in the Bush'' (1852), lived on a farm on the lake in the 1830s. Canadian author Cathy Pelletier aka K. C. McKinnon was inspired by this lake to write her novel "Dancing at the Harvest Moon" (1997). Although water levels in this lake and others in the Kawartha Lakes system are controlled to some extent by locks and dams, the lakeshore is vulnerable to flooding during the spring run-off period.

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{{reflist Lakes of Kawartha Lakes

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