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Medora Lk
Bala,
Ontario
P0C 1A0
Phone : (705) 762-3332
Your Host(s) : Post Office
Description From Owner:
- TPop. 490. In Muskoka Lakes T., Dist. Mun. of Musk ok a, on Bala Bay of L. Muskoka and C. Rds. 38 & 169,25.5 km. NW of Bracebridge.
- . The first settler in 1868 was Thomas Burgess who used the falls on the Musquosh R. to operate a sawmill.
- The community was known as Musquosh Falls and then Muskoka, but was named Bala in 1871 after Bala Lake in Wales. In 1914 it was incorporated as a town without fIrst becoming a village, and was believed to have been Canada's smallest incorporated town.
- In 1971 Bala amalgamated with the villages of Port Carling and Windermere and the townships of Card well and Watt to form the T. of Muskoka Lakes.
- A provincial plaque at Bala describes the Pre-Cambrian Shield, one of the oldest rock formations in the earth's crust, which covers about two-thirds of the surface of Ontario.
- From Ontario Place Names 2007 David E. Scott Ph. 866 471 4123 or 905 680 7884
Address of this page:
http://www.ruralroutes.com/muskoka
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Visitors to this page: 5,257
Off the beaten track: |
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Bala Road, 2km
Park Beach, 1km
Dudley, 3km
Bala Park, 3km
Whiteside, 5km
Medora, 5km
Torrance, 5km
Darling, 7km
Mortimers Point, 6km
Roderick, 6km
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Nearby Lakes: |
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Leech Lake, 1km
Spiers Lake, 2km
Round Lake, 2km
Barrett Lake, 2km
Long Lake, 2km
Hesners Lake, 2km
Bear Lake, 3km
Pennsylvania Lake, 3km
Island Lake, 4km
Dark Lake, 4km
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