Lake Joseph

Lake Joseph (Ontario)
Lake Joseph to the west (left) of Lake Rosseau
Lake Joseph (Ontario)
Coordinates	45°11′N 79°43′W / 45.183°N 79.717°W / 45.183; -79.717
Surface elevation	227 m (745 ft)[1]
Islands	Fraser Island, Blueberry Island, Island K, Emerald Island, Burnt Island, Round Island, Turtle Island, Dahmawah Island, Wegamind Island, Playfair Island, Gitchie Island, Waneshing Island, Bungay Island, Yoho Island, Birch Island, Rosebud Island, Peggy Island, Buck Island, Little Round Island, Cliff Island, Chief's Island, Kenesha Island, Strawberry Island, Bunny Island, Seven Pines Island, Eagle Island, Lilborne Island, Birch Island, Bottle Island, Chaplain Island, Loon Island, Little Loon Island, Fairy Island, Governors Island, Cameron Island, Little Chiefs Island, Home Island, Christmas Island, Elsinore Island, Harry Island, Lyford Island, Princess Island, Arma Island, Laurie Island, Sullivan Island, Caniff Island, Fawn Island, Baldy Island, Foster Island, Burgess Island, Sunshine Island, Ermananda Island, Leonard Island, Star Island, Black Forest Island, St. Helens Island, Bluff Island, Keith Island, Sunbeam Island, Coney Island, Sunset Island, Schooner Island, Anchor Island, Perch Island, Bass Island, Pickerel Island, Bell Island, Sugarloaf Island, Charity Island, Faith Island, Silver Birches Island, Badgerow Island, Geoffrey Island, Reef Island, Crane Island, Helen Island

Lake Joseph is located in Seguin Township, Ontario. Cottage development in the Muskoka region began on the northern islands of Lake Joseph in the 1870's but quickly spread to other sections of all three of the larger Muskoka lakes.^[2] Lake Joseph is connected to Lake Rosseau through the narrows at Port Sandfield and the Joseph River. William Robinson,^{[3][circular reference]} a member of the House of Assembly for Upper Canada (1830-1840) and later Commissioner of Public Works named Lake Joseph and neighbouring Lake Rosseau after his friend Joseph Rousseau, the father of a fur trader in the area.