Come and enjoy the thriving communities straddling the Trent River. Trent-Severn is favoured both as a great place to bring up a family and/or to retire. With its natural heritage, and spectacular beauty, you'll know it's the place for you!  Enjoy the many outdoor activities such as Camping, hiking, cross-country skiing in Ferris Provincial Park; outstanding Boating and Fishing opportunities, golfing, tennis, lawn bowling beside the river, swimming and hockey. 

The beauty and variety of its scenery is one of the Waterway's greatest assets. Traveling northwards from the Bay of Quinte, up through the valley of the Trent River, boaters pass by lush farmland, marshes rich with wildlife and waterfalls in rocky gorges. Rice Lake, with its distinctive tear-drop islands (drumlins), marks the start of the Kawartha Lakes. The shorelines blaze with colour in the fall.

The Trent and Severn drainage systems are linked at Kirkfield. Here, the canal was carved through the solid limestone of the Carden Plain to give access to lakes Simcoe and Couchiching. The northwesterly route of the Waterway continues down the Severn River to Georgian Bay.
Its turbulent waters are now calmed by massive dams, but the granite of the Canadian Shield is a constant reminder of the obstacles which the builders of the Waterway had to overcome.

Then, in the evening, just think of yourself sitting by the campfire, watching the sunset and thinking about all the fish that you are going to catch the next day. Or you can think about having a lazy day lounging around the pool watching the kids playing on the beach... 

Welcome to your paradise at home in Trent-Severn.

The Township of Severn is a rural municipality located within the County of Simcoe which is uniquely situated in the heart of cottage country, only one and a half hours north of Toronto. Our close proximity to both the cities of Barrie and Orillia, means that all of the "comforts of home" are readily available.
We can offer business and families an alternative choice to the hectic pace of larger urban centres. Severn Township residents and council believe in the philosophy of community and working in partnership for a better place to live and work.

We are dedicated to fostering a high quality rural lifestyle, through our commitment to enhancing public safety, preserving the natural environment and seeking opportunities for economic prosperity.

So whether you're planning to visit, work or retire... Come and experience Severn!

The Trent-Severn Waterway is simply a marvelous boaters delight with over 40 locks leading from Trenton at Lake Ontario (a Great Lake) to Georgian Bay/Lake Huron, a minimum boating trip of 5 full days.

Please enjoy some photos from Trent-Severn. If you live in Trent-Severn and would like to submit your photos, please send them to Richard@LagoonCityHomes.Com . I will contact you once they have been added to my website.

Towns and Timber Barons - A Little History
In the mid-1800's, the Trent River became a lumberman's highway. As the thriving industry cut timber further north, cribs of logs were driven down the timber slides of the Trent bringing prosperity to waterway communities. The lumberman actively discouraged canal-building, which might have hampered their interests. 
During the 19th century, the settlement of the Kawarthas was closely linked with the developing waterway. Rapids and waterfalls connecting the lakes were an impediment to travel, but they were also perfect waterpower sites for the early mills around which villages began. Bobcaygeon and Fenelon Falls are good examples of towns which sprang up around sawmills and gristmills, and then became local lumbering and transportation centres as dams, timer slides and eventually locks opened up navigation. 

Mossom Boyd of Bobcaygeon was a 19th-century timber baron who built a family empire around the waterway. Beginning with rafting squared timber to the St. Lawrence River, the Boyd family developed a thriving sawn lumber industry. In 1883, they formed the Trent Valley Navigation Company, which operated a fleet of

freight and passenger steamships throughout the Kawarthas. 

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