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Lake Temagami , formerly spelled as Lake Timagami , is a lake in Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario , Canada, situated approximately 80 km north of North Bay . The lake's name comes from dimii-agamiing "tih-MEE-uh-guh-MEENG", which means "it is deep water by the shore" in the Ojibwa language .

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51-409: The lake is irregularly shaped with long north, northeast and southwest arms, shorter northwest and south arms and several smaller bays . The town of Temagami is located at the end of the northeast arm of the lake. It extends almost 50 km from north to south and about 35 km from east to west. There are approximately 1,259 islands , the largest of which is Temagami Island . The lake's outflow

102-577: A sauna . There are 474,277 cottages in Finland (2005), a country with 187,888 lakes and 179,584 islands, including rental holiday cottages owned by hospitality companies but excluding holiday villages and buildings on garden allotments. Reports have 4,172 new cottages built in 2005. Most cottages are situated in the municipalities of Kuusamo (6,196 cottages on 1 January 2006), Kuopio (5,194), Ekenäs (Tammisaari – 5,053), Mikkeli (4,649), and Mäntyharju (4,630). The formal Swedish term for cottages

153-528: A cottage, particularly a summer cottage, to be a relatively small, possibly unfinished house. Various editions of the quintessentially American Webster's Dictionary define it as "a small house; any modest country or suburban dwelling," (fifth edition) with the eleventh edition describing even a vacation cottage as "a usu. small house for vacation use." In North America, most buildings known as cottages are used for weekend or summer getaways by city dwellers. Cottage owners often rent their properties to tourists as

204-416: A cottager was a farm labourer with land, and after an inclosure act the cottager was a farm labourer without land. In the law of England and Wales the definition of a cottage is "a small house or habitation without land". However, originally under an Elizabethan statute , the cottage had to be built with at least 4 acres (0.02 km ; 0.01 sq mi) of land. The Welsh Tŷ unnos or "house in

255-544: A fireplace. Today, many cottages have been extended with "outdoor rooms" (semi-heated external rooms with glass walls and a thin roof) and large wood terraces. As a result of the friggebod reform in 1979, many cottage owners have built additional guesthouses on their lots. The formal Norwegian term for cottages is hytte or fritidsbolig (vacation house). In Norway, cabins are often built near leisure activities such as hunting, fishing, and outdoor life / outdoor sports, or in areas with particularly beautiful nature, such as in

306-415: A larger main body of water, such as an ocean , a lake , or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf , sea , sound , or bight . A cove is a small, circular bay with a narrow entrance. A fjord is an elongated bay formed by glacial action. The term embayment is also used for related features , such as extinct bays or freshwater environments. A bay can be the estuary of

357-584: A larger property, is a particular type of cottage and is called a penty . The term cottage has also been used for a larger house that is practical rather than pretentious: see Chawton Cottage . Although the Oxford English Dictionary states that the term cottage is used in North America to represent "a summer residence (often on a large and sumptuous scale) at a watering-place or a health or pleasure resort," most Americans expect

408-512: A launching point for their Northward Bound program which takes place in January, February, May and June. A copper mine opened on Temagami Island in 1954 called Temagami Mine . It produced 34,000,000 dollars Canadian and was considered to mine the purest copper ore in Canada . The mine closed in 1972. Bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to

459-598: A lot depending on location; a modern seaside house near Stockholm may cost 100 times as much as a simple cottage in the inner regions of northern Sweden. Until the end of World War II, only a small wealthy Swedish elite could afford vacation houses—often both a large seaside house and a hunting cabin up north. During the rapid urbanisation in the 1950s and 1960s, many families were able to retain their old farmhouses, village cottages, and fisherman cabins and convert them into vacation houses. In addition, economic growth made it possible even for low-income families to buy small lots in

510-443: A night", was built by squatters on a plot of land defined by the throw of an axe from each corner of the property. In Welsh a cottage is known as bwthyn and its inhabitant preswlydd . In Scotland the equivalent to cottager would be the crofter and the term for the building and its land would be croft . Irish cottages, known as Irish : teachín , were historically the homes of farmworkers and labourers, but in recent years

561-577: A river, such as the Chesapeake Bay , an estuary of the Susquehanna River . Bays may also be nested within each other; for example, James Bay is an arm of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada . Some large bays, such as the Bay of Bengal and Hudson Bay, have varied marine geology . The land surrounding a bay often reduces the strength of winds and blocks waves . Bays may have as wide

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612-524: A source of revenue. In Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands , most cottages are vacation rentals used for weekend or summer getaways. In Michigan, a cottage normally means a summer residence farther north near or on a lake. An example of a colonial era cottage in North America is a small fieldstone house called Boelson Cottage in Fairmount Park , Philadelphia —one of the oldest extant houses within

663-493: A third of the stations built in the United States in those years, cottage-patterned facilities evoked a picturesque homeyness and were easier to gain approval for than the more stylized or attention-grabbing designs also commonly used at the dawn of the automobile era. In Australia, the term "cabin" or "shack" is commonly used for a small dwelling, the former more often for a place of residence or tourist accommodation and

714-499: A variety of shoreline characteristics as other shorelines. In some cases, bays have beaches , which "are usually characterized by a steep upper foreshore with a broad, flat fronting terrace". Bays were significant in the history of human settlement because they provided easy access to marine resources like fisheries . Later they were important in the development of sea trade as the safe anchorage they provide encouraged their selection as ports . The United Nations Convention on

765-516: Is fritidshus (vacation house) or stuga , of which there are 680.000 in Sweden (2007). According to Statistics Sweden, about 50% of the Swedish population has access to a vacation house. In everyday talk, Swedes refer to their cottages as lantstället (the country house) or stugan (the cottage). Most vacation houses in Sweden are to be found along the coasts and around the major cities. Prices vary

816-491: Is based on Devil Island , in the shadow of Devil Mountain and across from Granny Bay in the northern section of the lake. Keeywaydin, founded in 1892, is one of several camps on Lake Temagami whose focus is on wilderness canoe trips using traditional equipment such as cedar and canvas canoes and wannigans . Since it began running trips in Ontario in 1902, it is the earliest known private business on Temagami besides for

867-446: Is built on a trailer platform and can be relocated. Statistics Finland defines a cottage ( Finnish : mökki , Finland Swedish : stuga or villa ) as "a residential building that is used as a holiday or free-time dwelling and is permanently constructed or erected on its site". Finnish cottages are traditionally built of logs but other wood constructions have become common. They are usually situated close to water and almost all have

918-512: Is legitimate to talk about the appearance of the term "Russian cottage" – a house, comparable in size to a British villa or even a mansion, and includes a corresponding piece of land. Much like in the rest of the world, cottages in South Africa housed agricultural workers and their friends and families. A number of cottages were also constructed for fishermen along the West and South Coasts of

969-591: Is most notable in the Midwest and the Western United States, and Western Canada. In much of Northern Ontario , New England , and upstate New York , a summer house near a body of water is known as a camp. In the 1960s and 1970s, the A-Frame house became a popular cottage style in North America. In the 1920s and 30s many gas stations were built in the style of Old World cottages. Comprising about

1020-747: Is one of the most popular tourist draws in Ontario , Canada, parts of which have come to be known as cottage country . This term typically refers to the north and south shores of Georgian Bay, Ontario ; Muskoka, Ontario ; Haliburton, Ontario ; and the Kawartha Lakes, Ontario ; but has also been used to describe several other Canadian regions. The practice of renting cottages has become widespread in these regions, especially with rising property taxes for waterfront property. What Eastern Canadians refer to as "cottages" (seasonal-use dwellings), are generally referred to as "cabins" in most of North America. This

1071-734: Is the Temagami River which in turn flows into the Sturgeon River . A number of peninsulas are associated with the lake, such as the McLean , Cynthia and Joan peninsulas, as well as Sand Point , which separates the Northwest Arm from the rest of the lake. The lands surrounding the lake are part of the Canadian Shield , one of the largest single exposure of Precambrian rocks in the world which were formed after

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1122-401: Is the world's largest bay. Bays also form through coastal erosion by rivers and glaciers . A bay formed by a glacier is a fjord . Rias are created by rivers and are characterised by more gradual slopes. Deposits of softer rocks erode more rapidly, forming bays, while harder rocks erode less quickly, leaving headlands . Cottage A cottage , during England's feudal period ,

1173-658: The HBC post on Bear Island. Camp Temagami, or A.L. Cochrane's Camp for boys, was founded in 1903 on an island in the South Arm of Lake Temagami. While Camp Temagami emphasized the importance of the wilderness canoe trip for shaping young men, the camp also developed a robust in-camp program that included athletics and life-guard training, as well as the study of the natural environment and Native American folklore . Camp Temagami offered canoe trips and in-camp activities for boys and young men until its closure in 1972. Camp Temagami

1224-485: The Precambrian era. These enormous mountains were taller than any that exist today. The uplifting was accomplished as enormous pressure caused the earth to buckle in a process called folding . Other processes, such as volcanic activity and geologic faulting in which the earth cracks open also contributed to the formation of these mountains. Over millions of years, these enormous mountains were gradually eroded to

1275-718: The Earth's crust cooled. Part of Lake Temagami lies in the Temagami Magnetic Anomaly , an egg shaped geologic structure stretching from Lake Wanapitei in the west to Bear Island . It has striking similarities to the Sudbury Basin , which is one of the richest mining camps in the world. The hills in the Temagami area are remnants of the oldest mountain ranges in North America , that date back to

1326-503: The Law of the Sea defines a bay as a well-marked indentation in the coastline, whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast. An indentation, however, shall not be regarded as a bay unless its area is as large as (or larger than) that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across

1377-470: The Lorien Wilderness site and offered co-ed wilderness trips, and later single-gender girls’ trips through their Northern Lights Programs for ages 11–14. In 1999, Keewaydin became co-ed. Keeywaydin, Wanapitei, Temagami, and Wabun were boys camps when founded but have since all become co-ed. Appleby College 's northern campus is located on Rabbit Nose island, opened in the mid 1970s it provides

1428-419: The cheapest locally available materials and in the local style, thus in wheat-growing areas, it would be roofed in thatch, and in slate-rich locations, such as Cornwall, slates would be used for roofing. In stone-rich areas, its walls would be built of rubble stone, and in other areas, such as Devon, was commonly built from cob . In England from about the 18th century onwards, the development of industry led to

1479-560: The city (c.1678–84). In the jargon of English-speaking Quebec 's real-estate industry, a cottage is any two-storey house, as opposed to a bungalow . However, "cottages" in Eastern Canada are generally located next to lakes, rivers, or the ocean in forested areas. They are used as a place to spend holidays with friends and family; common activities include swimming, canoeing, waterskiing, fishing, hiking , and sailing . There are also many well-known summer colonies . Cottage living

1530-557: The cottage bore the Latin name: " domus ", while the barn of the cottage was termed " grangia ". The word originally referred to a humble rural detached dwelling of a cotter , a semi-independent resident of a manor who had certain residential rights from the lord of the manor , and who in the social hierarchy was a grade above the slave (mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086), who had no right of tenure and worked full-time to

1581-409: The countryside where they could erect simple houses. Former vacation houses near the large cities have gradually been converted into permanent homes as a result of urban sprawl . The traditional Swedish cottage is a simple paneled house made of wood and painted in red . They may contain 1–3 small bedrooms and also a small bathroom. In the combined kitchen and living room ( storstuga ) there is usually

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1632-536: The development of weavers ' cottages and miners ' cottages. Friedrich Engels cites 'Cottages' as a poor quality dwelling in his 1845 work The Condition of the Working Class in England . Over the years various English acts of Parliament removed the right of the cottager to hold land. According to John Lawrence Hammond and Barbara Hammond in their book The Village Labourer , before an inclosure act

1683-628: The early interwar years . Visitors from the cities of Ontario and the United States’ northeast and great lakes regions traveled north on the Timiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway [ Ontario Northland Railway ], and later on the Ferguson Highway when it opened in 1927. A large passenger steamboat , Belle of Temagami , operated on Lake Temagami from the 1900s to the 1940s and would carry vacationers and campers throughout

1734-881: The early stages of the formation of the Earth 's crust . The northeast arm of Lake Temagami is underlain by a strong fault zone of sheared felsic to intermediate metavolcanic rocks that is approximately 1,200 m (3,900 ft) wide. This fault zone, known as the Northeast Arm Deformation Zone , and the associated metavolcanic rocks are associated with the Temagami Greenstone Belt , an Archean greenstone belt characterized by felsic - mafic volcanic rocks . Lake Temagami and its surrounding lakes provide endless opportunities for canoe camping . There are over 2,000 km of interconnecting canoe routes. The region contains some of

1785-501: The lake. During the late Depression and Second World War , vacation lodges and camps struggled to stay open resulting in and several notable lodges reopening as youth camps. Camp Cayuga reopened in 1940 as the first girls’ camp on the lake. Camp Wabikon reopened as a co-ed youth camp in 1945, making it the first co-ed youth camp on the lake. In the 1950s and 60s, several youth camps opened as co-ed institutions or camps for girls. Camp Wanapitei has been on lake Temagami since 1956, after

1836-416: The land as we know it today in Temagami. The rocks that form Temagami to this day are igneous , metamorphic and sedimentary . The area has good potential to host diamondiferous kimberlites and more diamond bearing kimberlites may continue to be discovered in the area. The Temagami area also contains some pillow lava about 2 billion years old, indicating that great submarine volcanoes existed during

1887-557: The largest remaining stands of old growth red and white pine forests in Ontario. In 1834, the Hudson's Bay Company opened a fur trading post on the lake, which operated during the 19th century. The Forest Reserves Act of 1898 established the Temagami Forest Reserve on the shores and adjacent lands of the lake in 1901. It was created to reserve the forests for future logging by restricting settlement. In 1904 it

1938-408: The latter for a simple recreational shelter, typically not continuously occupied. The term cottage usually refers to historic smaller residential buildings, commonly stone or brick, typically from Georgian or Victorian. More recently, cabins are often also referred to tiny houses , however, cabins are built at a permanent site on proper footings, while the term tiny house often implies that the dwelling

1989-458: The mouth of that indentation — otherwise it would be referred to as a bight . There are various ways in which bays can form. The largest bays have developed through plate tectonics . As the super-continent Pangaea broke up along curved and indented fault lines, the continents moved apart and left large bays; these include the Gulf of Guinea , the Gulf of Mexico , and the Bay of Bengal , which

2040-555: The nobility, dates back to a movement of "rustic" stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th century during the Romantic movement. In British English the term now denotes a small, cosy dwelling of traditional build, although it can also be applied to modern construction designed to resemble traditional houses (" mock cottages"). Cottages may be detached houses, or terraced , such as those built to house workers in mining villages. The tied accommodation provided to farm workers

2091-537: The orders of the lord. In the Domesday Book, they were referred to as Coterelli . The cottage had a small amount of surrounding agricultural land, perhaps 2 or three acres, from which the resident gained his livelihood and sustenance. It was defined by its function of housing a cotter, rather than by its form, which varied, but it was certainly small and cheaply built and purely functional, with no non-essential architectural flourishes. It would have been built from

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2142-463: The previous location on Lake Wanapitei was flooded and was the first co-ed canoe tripping camp on the lake, becoming a full co-ed camp in 1971. It is located in the sandy inlet of the lake. They hold the place for longest trip, as their V2 trip lasts for 52 days, and is meant for 18 year olds, up north in places such as the Mackenzie river , and different northern provinces. Camp Metagami for girls

2193-1233: The term "cabin" is common, cottage usually referring to a smaller pre-modern period dwelling. In certain countries (e.g. Nordics , Baltics , and Russia) the term "cottage" has local synonyms: In Finnish mökki , in Estonian suvila , in Latvian vasarnīca , in Livonian sõvvõkuodā , in Swedish stuga , in Norwegian hytte (from the German word Hütte ), in Czech or Slovak chata or chalupa , in Russian дача ( dacha ). In places such as Canada, "cottage" carries no connotations of size (compare with vicarage or hermitage ). The word cottage ( Medieval Latin cotagium ) derives from Old English cot, cote "hut" and Old French cot "hut, cottage", from Old Norse kot "hut" and related to Middle Low German kotten (cottage, hut). Examples of this may be found in 15th century manor court rolls . The house of

2244-438: The term has assumed a romantic connotation especially when referring to cottages with thatched roofs ( Irish : teach ceann tuí ). These thatched cottages were once to be seen all over Ireland, but most have become dilapidated due to newer and modern developments. However, there has been a recent revival of restoring these old cottages, with people wanting a more traditional home. Today, thatched cottages are now mostly built for

2295-834: The tourist industry and many can be let out as accommodation. In popular modern culture, the term cottage is used in a more general and romantic context and can date from any era but the term is usually applied to pre-modern dwellings. Older, pre-Victorian cottages tend to have restricted height, and often have construction timber exposed, sometimes intruding into the living space. Modern renovations of such dwellings often seek to re-expose timber purlins, rafters, posts, etc. which have been covered, in an attempt to establish perceived historical authenticity. Older cottages are typically modest, often semi-detached or terraced, with only four basic rooms ("two up, two down"), although subsequent modifications can create more spacious accommodation. A labourer's or fisherman's one-roomed house, often attached to

2346-528: The woods, in the mountains, or by the sea. In the most attractive areas, it has become increasingly common with regulated fields where the cabins are very close together, in so-called "cabin villages". Chained cabins and holiday apartments are also being built here, similar to a normal city. The first known "cottages" were built in Russia in the 19th century, when British culture was popular. Today many large cities in Russia are surrounded by cottage villages. So it

2397-562: Was founded in the early 1960s as a sister camp to Camp Temagami , but closed shortly afterwards in 1970. Originally an exclusive vacation lodge, Camp White Bear reopened as a co-ed youth camp in 1961. In 1968, Lorien Wilderness took over the Camp Cayuga site and offered co-ed wilderness trips. Located on an island in the hub of the lake, Camp Wabun has run canoe trips in the area since 1933, including trips to Hudson's Bay , and has been co-ed since 1977. In 1985, Camp Northwaters took over

2448-485: Was increased to 15,000 km (5,800 sq mi). As a result of this reserve, the building of cottages and resorts was only permitted on the lake's islands. This restriction is still in force today. Lake Temagami is popular for cottage vacationing : the number of cottages on Lake Temagami are estimated between 630 and 746. In addition there are 9 youth camps , and 12 commercial lodges. Keewaydin Canoe Camp

2499-446: Was reopened in 2003, on the site of the old Wigwasati and Pays d’en Haut camps. Camp Wigwasati, on the southwest arm, began running canoe trips in the Temagami wilderness in 1930. Camp Wabikon was a vacation lodge opened around 1913 by John Orr, a former hotel operator from Stayner, Ontario, and subsequently operated by his daughter Laura, and then by H.W. Wilson. Lake Temagami’s vacation lodges and canoe tripping camps flourished during

2550-509: Was the holding by a cottager (known as a cotter or bordar ) of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager had to provide some form of service to the manorial lord . However, in time cottage just became the general term for a small house. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling , typically in a rural or semi-rural location and not necessarily in England. The cottage orné , often quite large and grand residences built by

2601-437: Was usually a cottage, see cottage garden . In England the term holiday cottage now denotes a specialised form of residential let property, attracting various tax benefits to the owner. The holiday cottage exists in many cultures under different names. In Canadian English and American English , "cottage" is one term for such holiday homes, although they may also be called a "cabin", " chalet ", or even "camp". In Australia,

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