Lindsay is a community of 22,367 people (2021 census)[2] on the Scugog River in the Kawartha Lakes region of south-eastern Ontario, Canada.

The Township of Ops was surveyed in 1825 by Colonel Duncan McDonell, and Lots 20 and 21 in the 5th Concession were reserved for a town site.

The same year settlers began to come to the region, and by 1827, the Purdys, an American family, built a dam on the Scugog River at the site of present-day Lindsay.

Local lore claims that during the survey, one of Huston's assistants, Mr. Lindsay, was accidentally shot in the leg and died of an infection.

With the arrival of the Port Hope Railway in 1857, the town saw a period of rapid development and industrial growth.

The first train arrived at the St. Paul and King Streets station (Lindsay’s first) on the east side of the Scugog River on October 16, 1857.

In 1877, it applied to the Town of Lindsay to extend its railway down Victoria Avenue to Glenelg Street to connect with the WPP&L (see below), where a brick station (Lindsay’s second) was built on Victoria Ave between Glenelg and Melbourne Streets to serve the two railways as a union station.

In Lindsay, a new entry from Omemee was then decided upon, and a bridge was built over the Scugog River at the east end of Durham St.

A large freight yard was built south of Durham between Lindsay and Hamilton Sts, and the Port Hope engine house was dismantled and rebuilt in Lindsay as a running shed, together with the attendant shops, on the east side of Albert St. south of Durham.

The GTR operated a branch of The Grand Trunk Railway Literary and Scientific Society in Lindsay, including a full public library.

[3] To commemorate the 150th Anniversary, a monument was carved in front of the old town hall on Kent Street, by chainsaw carver Gerald Guenkel, of Omemee.

Peterborough's Global Television affiliate CHEX-TV covers the region daily with its Newswatch news programs.

In 2001, Lindsay played host to an episode of the OLN Reality Series Drifters: The Water Wars as they passed through the Trent-Severn Waterway.

Collecting since 1957, it has exhibits that detail 19th century life in a rural county jail, businesses and people of Kawartha Lakes, as well as regular programming and events.

The collection consists mainly of personal and private papers, photographs, and objects in the range of 50,000 total items.

The district's towers included: Harburn, Bruton, Eyre, Glamorgan (Green's Mountain), Harvey, Cardiff, Digby, Lutterworth, Sherbourne (St. Nora), Dorset, Clarke (Ganaraska Forest), Haldimand (Northumberland Forest) and Methuen (Blue Mountain).

When a fire was spotted in the forest a towerman would get the degree bearings from his respective tower and radio back the information to headquarters.

When one or more towermen from other towers in the area would also call in their bearings, the forest rangers at headquarters could get a 'triangulation' read and plot the exact location of the fire on their map.