The proximity of these watersheds to each other, and their water volume, were deciding factors in the choice of a route, in 1826, for the canal linking Bytown and Kingston. As farming grew in the ward, numerous mills sprang up, powered by the rivers of the local watersheds. Lawrence River came, seeking land, and moved into what was still a wilderness in the ward. Also, Canadian-born offspring of the earliest settlers near Lake Ontario and the St.
These settlers were a combination of British immigrants, migrants from other British colonies, such as Nova Scotia, and decommissioned soldiers from the War of 1812. The land around the portage from the Rideau system into Mud (later Newboro) Lake was described by these early explorers as “too rocky to cultivate.” However, the southern plain ultimately provided farmland to settlers, the first of whom arrived in 1819. The first Europeans came into the region up the Rideau River system, led by Mississauga guides in 1783. One of Ontario’s major watershed divides cuts across the ward, forming a height of land that continues to send the waters of those three lakes north to the Ottawa River, while the waters to the south of the divide flow south to Lake Ontario. Between these two geologically distinct northern and southern regions of the ward, a string of lakes formed along the Rideau Lake Fault line: Wolfe Lake, Sand Lake and the Rideau Lakes. As the glaciers receded, 12,000 years ago, they scraped away much of the topsoil on what has come to be known as “the Mountain.” The glacial meltwater accumulated to create a vast inland extension of the Atlantic Ocean called the Champlain Sea which covered the southern part of the ward, until it too receded 6,000 to 8,000 years ago. These prehistoric phenomena yielded the exposed bedrock of the Canadian Shield in the north of today’s ward, as well as the limestone and shale in the south. Between 1,600 and 400 million years ago, the region’s rocky foundations were formed by the “mountain-building” period of continental collisions, by the actions of tropical seas, by millions of years of erosion, and by what is known as the Rideau Lake Fault. The history of North Crosby Ward stems, in many ways, from its geology and geography. Site Plan Control Follow-up and Support ProgramĬlick on the photo to begin the slideshow The History of North Crosby
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