Location: Greater Area

Our Family cottage is located on Shadow Lake, in the Kawartha Lakes region, just off Highway 35, about one to one and a half hours from Toronto. The address that’s accepted by most GPS systems is 24 Vern Court, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. Occasionally a particular GPS or web search may prefer 24 Vern Court, Norland, Ontario, or 24 Vern Court, Coboconk, Ontario. (Don’t ask us why, we have no idea!) Although part of the chain of the Kawartha lakes, Shadow Lake is smaller, more private and quieter in general because it has no lock to Balsam Lake to the south, isolating it from the Trent-Severn Waterway and other boaters using the lock system. We ask that our guests respect this quieter, family environment. The Kawartha Lakes area is situated on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Huron-Wendat and more recently, the Haudenosaunee peoples. Kawartha is an anglicization of Ka-wa-tha (from Ka-wa-tae-gum-maug or Gaa-waategamaag), which was coined in 1895 by Martha Whetung of the Curve Lake First Nations. It meant "land of reflections" in the Anishinaabe language, according to Whetung. The word was later changed by tourism promoters to Kawartha, meaning "bright waters and happy lands.”