White's Falls

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White's Falls
Location Port Severn Ontario, Canada
Coordinates 44°52′48″N79°43′20″W / 44.8799°N 79.7221°W / 44.8799; -79.7221 (Niagara Falls) Coordinates: 44°52′48″N79°43′20″W / 44.8799°N 79.7221°W / 44.8799; -79.7221 (Niagara Falls)
Type Cataract
Total height 20 ft (6.1 m)
Number of drops 1
Watercourse Six Mile Lake (Ontario)

White's Falls is a waterfall in Gloucester Pool. It is located near the town of Port Severn.

Gloucester Pool is a lake in Georgian Bay Township, District of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.

The upper portion of White's Falls has been modified by a dam to maintain water levels in Six Mile Lake (Ontario). As such, the flow through the falls is seasonally variable. It is located right off Muskoka Road 34, just a few minutes from Ontario Highway 400. The falls are located along the main road to the Big Chute Marine Railway. White's Falls is named after Joseph Arthur White Sr who settled in the area in the mid-19th century.

Six Mile Lake is in the Township of Georgian Bay, Muskoka, Ontario and has a Provincial Park.

Ontario Highway 400 highway in Ontario

King's Highway 400, commonly referred to as Highway 400, historically as the Toronto–Barrie Highway, and colloquially as the 400, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario linking the city of Toronto in the urban and agricultural south of the province with the scenic and sparsely populated central and northern regions. The portion of the highway between Toronto and Lake Simcoe roughly traces the route of the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail, a historic trail between the Lower and Upper Great Lakes. North of Highway 12, in combination with Highway 69, it forms a branch of the Trans-Canada Highway, the Georgian Bay Route, and is part of the highest-capacity route from southern Ontario to the Canadian West, via a connection with the mainline of the TCH in Sudbury. The highway also serves as the primary route from Toronto to southern Georgian Bay and Muskoka, areas collectively known as cottage country. The highway is patrolled by the Ontario Provincial Police and has a speed limit of 100 km/h (62 mph), except for the section south of the 401, where the speed limit is 80 km/h (50 mph).

Big Chute Marine Railway boat lift

Big Chute Marine Railway is a patent slip at lock 44 of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in individual cradles over a change of height of about 60 feet (18 m). It is the only marine railway of its kind in North America still in use, and is overseen by federally operated Parks Canada.

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References

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