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Standpipe information
Location:
Signage: Burks Falls
Old standpipe - R
Capacity: 1,000,139 liters
Built: 1962 at a cost of $25,000
New standpipe - L
Built: 2017 at a cost of $650,000
Capacity: 1,613,861 liters
Photo credit:
Andrew Mendler reporter at the The Midland Mirror

Burks Falls - Northern Ontario
Photo © Mark Visser

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Area Information
Burk's Falls is village in the Almaguin Highlands region of Parry Sound District located 265 kilometres (165 mi) north of Toronto, and 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of North Bay. The village, and the waterfall on the site, were named (for himself) by David Francis Burk of Oshawa, after he selected the land surrounding the waterfall in the Free Land Grant Act. After 1875 the Rosseau-Nipissing Colonization Road allowed access from Muskoka, to the south. Railway service came to Burk's Falls in 1886, with the opening of Northern and Pacific Junction Railway, absorbed by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1888. The Village of Burk's Falls was incorporated in 1890. Wikipedia


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