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Northumberland - Sandy Bay Beach

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Sandy Bay offers access to Rice Lake. It was once an important source of wild rice for the area's Indigenous community. Rice Lake is the largest of the Kawartha Lakes. The Trent River carries its waters out to Lake Ontario.

Water Quality

Passes water quality tests 60-95% of the time.
Water quality information provided by Swim Guide with the support of RBC Royal Bank.

Watersheds

Lake Ontario

Traditional Territories

Anishinaabeg
Haudenosaunee
Huron-Wendat

Treaties

Williams (1923)

Languages

Anishinaabe
Mississauga/Eastern Anishinaabe (Ojibwa)

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