This dam is at the output of Baptiste Lake.
"Surprisingly, a large part of Baptiste Lake is man-made. The early logging company of Harris and Bronson built the first substantial wooden dam at the outlet of the lake in 1866. The waters backed up to create LaVallee Bay, flooded Redmond flats, and widened the York River which joined Baptiste Lake to Elephant Lake on the north. All this to drive logs in one huge lake system from Harcourt Township and the present Algonquin Park, to the lower York River and Bancroft."
(from, Touring the Past, A guide to old mines, ghosts towns and historic sites of North Hastings, by Bob Lyons, 2012)
Interesting to know what Elephant 'Lake' looked like before it was a body of water we see today.
Another High Falls exists on the York River as it comes out of Algonqin Park.
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