[2] It is notable as a local tragedy when five men drowned when their car fell through the frozen lake on January 23, 1938, leading to ballads and poems.

[6] A Canadian Pacific Railway freight service station has been located at Chamcook Lake.

The Chamkcook harbour, a wet dock, lies is to the eastern side of the peninsular where development took place.

The Chamcook Lake watershed serves as a potable water supply for the Atlantic Salmon Federation, the St. Andrews Biological Station, the Champlain Industrial Park, and the town of St.

[10] The lake's red rock is feldspathic, of a brownish-red colour that weathers to brick-red, imperfectly syenitic, and showing some indications of an eruptive origin.

[11] A set of very fine petro-siliceous rocks, which are almost black, but have a perceptible purplish tinge are situated on the western shore.

[17] Chamcook Lake contains populations of Vitrea snails and in the 1930s a new species of Holopedium water flea was discovered in the area.