Marchington Lake (Ontario)

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Marchington Lake
Marchington Lake
Location	Kenora District, Ontario
Coordinates	50°11′17″N 91°24′24″W / 50.18806°N 91.40667°W / 50.18806; -91.40667
Primary inflows	Marchington River, Sturgeon River, North River
Primary outflows	Marchington River
Basin countries	Canada
Max. length	22.5 km (14.0 mi)
Max. width	2.5 km (1.6 mi)
Surface area	81 km2 (31 sq mi)
Shore length1	81 km (50.3 mi)
Surface elevation	362 m (1,188 ft)
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Marchington Lake is a lake in the Hudson Bay drainage basin located near Sioux Lookout in the Kenora District of northwestern Ontario, Canada.^[1]

Derived its name from John Samuels son William Marchington. William, who was a Parliamentary writer and later editor of Canada's national newspaper the 'Globe & Mail'. William also wrote for a couple of English newspapers. William had a golfing buddy who was a Cartographer, and as such he asked to use William's surname to name areas in the 'back country' of Ontario.