15 Market
Fenelon Falls, Ontario
K0M 1N0

Phone : (705) 887-2140
Your Host(s) : Canada Post Fenelon Falls

Description From Owner:

• Pop. 1,806. In Fenelon T., Victoria C., on the Fenelon R. between Sturgeon and Cameron Ls. and Hwys 35A and C. Rds. 8 & 121,22 km. N of Lindsay.
• The community was founded in 1834 by Irish immigrants James Wallis and Robert Jameson, who built a sawmill at the 23-foot (7 m) waterfall.
• The place was first called Cameron's Falls after Duncan Cameron, provincial secretary of Upper Canada.
• When the post office opened in 1838 the name Fenelon Falls was chosen to honour Father Fenelon, Abbe Franlfois de Salignac, a Sulpician missionary who came to Canada in 1667 and founded a mission on the Bay of Quinte.
• Wallis' former home, Maryboro Lodge, is now the Fenelon Falls Museum.
• From Ontario Place Names 2007 David E. Scott Ph. 866 471 4123 or 905 680 7884

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