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Head of the Lake

• Hist. the western end of Lake Ontario: the vicinity of Burlington, Hamilton, and Niagara-on-the-Lake.

  See also: Lakehead (def. 1)  

  • 1793  (1911)  They left Niagara [and] slept a few hours at Jones' farm at the "head of the lake."
  • 1824  My absence at the Head of the Lake was prolonged by ill health. . . .
  • 1911  Richard Beasley . . . was the first settler at the "Head of the Lake."
  • 1958  The region long known as the fond du lac was shortly re-named the "Head of the Lake," a new British colony of settlement.