Faraday is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within Hastings County adjacent to the town of Bancroft.

[2] Prior to the 1922 discovery of uranium, mica, feldspar, and other minerals were mined on a small scale in the area.

[4] The Barker Quarries operated south of Marble Lake sporadically from 1908 into the late 1930s, providing marble for government buildings in Ottawa and Casa Loma and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

[4] Arthur H. Shore, an independent prospector, first found uranium at his lot in Faraday township in 1948 or 1949.

The closure of the mines after the global supply of uranium diminished created significant hardship for the area.