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Quinte West (/ ˈ k w ɪ n t i /) is a city, geographically located in but administratively separated from Hastings County, in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is on the western end of the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario. The Lake Ontario terminus of the Trent–Severn Waterway is in the municipality.
The freshwater lake around which the park is based is located nearly 62 metres (203 ft) above the Bay of Quinte from which it is separated by a narrow strip of land ending in a cliff. Often thought to have no visible source of water, it is actually fed by at least two small streams from the surrounding higher land, predominantly from the west ...
The Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte (Kenhtè:ke Kanyen'kehá:ka) [3] live on traditional Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Their reserve Band number 244, their current land base, is 73 km 2 (18,000 acres) on the Bay of Quinte in southeastern Ontario east of Belleville and immediately to the west of Deseronto. [3]
The Trent River is a river in southeastern Ontario which flows from Rice Lake to empty into the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario. This river is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway which leads to Georgian Bay. The river is 90 kilometres (56 mi) long.
Potter Creek flows once again under Wallbridge-Loyalist Road and re-inters Quinte West, passing into Potter's Creek Conservation Area. [8] It then turns south, flows under the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline, heads by the Quinte Conservation headquarters, [ 9 ] flows under Old Highway 2 , and reaches its mouth at the Bay of Quinte at an ...
Trenton (2001 population 16,770 [1]) is a large community in Central Ontario in the municipality of Quinte West, Ontario, Canada. Located on the Bay of Quinte , it is the starting point for the Trent-Severn Waterway , which continues northwest to Peterborough and eventually Port Severn on Georgian Bay .
Carrying Place is a community straddling the Quinte West and Prince Edward County border that serves as a gateway to Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Situated northwest of Picton and just south of Trenton, it was named for its location on the portage between the Bay of Quinte and Weller's Bay on Lake Ontario.
Hastings County (named for Francis Rawdon-Hastings) was first organized for electoral purposes in 1792, with its boundaries described as being: . bounded on the east by the westernmost boundary of the county of Lenox, on the south by the bay of Quinte, until it meets a boundary on the easternmost line of the river Trent, thence along the river until it intersects the rear of the ninth ...