Lakes of Temagami

There are more than 200 named lakes located partially or entirely within the Municipality of Temagami, Northeastern Ontario, Canada.

They are located in all 25 geographic townships comprising this 1,906.42 km2 (736.07 sq mi) municipality.

The lakes are a main source of tourism and recreational activity in the Municipality of Temagami.

The first recorded tourist was an oblate priest named Charles Paradis, who visited the area in July 1880 and eventually settled on Lake Temagami's Sandy Inlet.

Despite its remote location and inaccessibility by rail until 1904, the Temagami area attracted increasing numbers of hardy tourists who arrived, as Paradis had done, by canoe from Lake Timiskaming in the east, or from the west travelling up the Sturgeon River from its intersection with the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Temagami is vastly covered by lakes, of which Lake Temagami (middle) is the largest.
View of Arsenic Lake from Leckie Mine on its eastern shore
An aerial view of the Temagami townsite, Lake Temagami (centre-left) and Caribou Lake (bottom)
Byers Bay of Jumping Cariboo Lake from Camp Caribou
Net Lake boat launch in Temagami North
South arm of Rabbit Lake
A view down the western portion of Tetapaga Lake
Upper Redwater Lake as seen from along the Ontario Northland Railway