| Daisy Lake | |
|---|---|
  Daisy Lake Location of Daisy Lake in Ontario. | |
| Location | Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 46°26′59″N80°53′21″W / 46.44972°N 80.88917°W Coordinates: 46°26′59″N80°53′21″W / 46.44972°N 80.88917°W |
| Type | Lake |
| Primary inflows | Whitefish River |
| Max. length | 3.2 km (2.0 mi) |
| Max. width | 0.3 km (0.19 mi) |
| Surface elevation | 230 m (750 ft) |
Daisy Lake is a lake in the city of Greater Sudbury in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is in the Lake Huron drainage basin and is the source of the Whitefish River.
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are also larger and deeper than ponds, though there are no official or scientific definitions. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams, which are usually flowing. Most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams.
Sudbury, officially Greater Sudbury, is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 161,531 at the Canada 2016 Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in Canada. It is administratively a single-tier municipality, and thus not part of any district, county, or regional municipality.
Northeastern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron and east of Lake Superior.
The lake is about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) long and 0.3 kilometres (0.2 mi) wide, lies at an elevation of 230 metres (755 ft), and is located about 4 kilometres (2 mi) east of the community of McFarlane Lake and 0.7 kilometres (0.4 mi) south of Ontario Highway 17. There is one unnamed creek inflow, and the primary outflow is the Whitefish River which flows to the North Channel on Lake Huron.
King's Highway 17, more commonly known as Highway 17, is a provincially maintained highway and the primary route of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Canadian province of Ontario. It begins at the Manitoba boundary 50 km (31 mi) west of Kenora and the main section ends where Highway 417 begins just west of Arnprior. A small disconnected signed section of the highway still remains within the Ottawa Region between County Road 29 and Grants Side Rd. This makes it Ontario's longest highway.
The North Channel is the body of water along the north shore of Lake Huron, in the Canadian province of Ontario. It stretches approximately 160 nautical miles and is bordered on the east by Georgian Bay, on the west by the St. Marys River, to the north by the eastern Algoma District and part of the Sudbury District, and to the south by the islands of Manitoulin, Cockburn, Drummond and St. Joseph. At its widest point it is over 30 km wide.
The lake is also home to the new Daisy Lake Uplands Provincial Park.
Daisy Lake Uplands Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Canadian province of Ontario. Surrounding Daisy Lake in the city of Greater Sudbury, the park serves to protect a recovering ecosystem scarred by pollution from the city's mining industry; one of the industry's first roasting beds in the region was located just east of the park boundaries. The park's ecosystem includes white birch trees, grasses, sedges, rock barrens and bog vegetation. The site is designated as a control area for ecological research — unlike in other parts of the city, where extensive environmental mitigation and recovery programs have been undertaken since the 1970s, Daisy Lake Uplands is set aside for study of the site's ability to recover on its own without human intervention. The park was first proposed for creation in 2003, and was officially designated by an amendment to the Ontario Provincial Parks Act in 2006.
