Calder Lake, Nova Scotia
Calder Lake Geography
- Official Name: Calder Lake
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Hydrographic Feature
- Geographic Feature Type: Lake
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.471575, -62.635878
Calder Lake Maps
- NTS Map Number: 011E07
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas: Section 16
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map Number: Crown Land Grant Map 087
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Map Number: 1045400062600 (Bridgeville)
- Calder Lake Inventory Map
About Calder Lake
Calder Lake is a small fresh water lake located south of Forbes lake and west of East River Side Road in the community of Springville.
The lake is believed to be named after Alexander Calder, who in 1834 purchased forested land on what is now called Calder Lake. He and his family were early settlers in the area that became known as Springville.
The area around Calder Lake is underlain by different geological formations. It is near the Forbes Lake and Churchville Formations, which are part of the Windsor Group of the Lower Carboniferous period. These formations are characterized by sandstone, shale, and mudstone.
Calder lake is relatively small and shallow lake, about 14.8 hectares in size, has a mean depth of 1.6 m, with its deepest part being just over 2 metres. It has an average hardness as CaCO3 (mg/L) of 7.8, and a PH of 6.8.
More details about the baseline water quality of this lake can be found by examining Nova Scotia’s Lake Chemistry data collected from the Nova Scotia Lake Survey Program and provided by the Government of Nova Scotia. The water quality data include nutrients, chlorophyll a, dissolved oxygen, temperature, transparency, alkalinity, colour, major ions, selected metals, plus various fish habitat parameters. Temperature and dissolved oxygen profiles are when recorded are also included.
The lake inventory map for this lake is shown in the graphic below, and also available to download online (PDF).
[Source: wikitree.com / mindat.org / Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables]
Calder Lake, Lake Inventory Map
Lake Inventory Maps
The Province of Nova Scotia maintains fresh water lake inventory data on over 1000 lakes in Nova Scotia. From that they generate lake inventory maps, that display basic depth contours. Some of the maps also contain data on water quality, fish species, recent stocking history and other information.
Nova Scotia Fisheries and Aquaculture provides paper copies of lake inventory maps to the public (by request), and some of those maps have been made into PDF digital versions that available to download. Click here for details on how to obtain paper copies.
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