Wilcox Lake (or more commonly; Lake Wilcox) is both a kettle lake and a community within Oak Ridges, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. The lake measures 1.5 kilometers across and covers 55.6 hectares, making it the largest kettle lake on the Oak Ridges Moraine. Lake Wilcox, Lake St. George and their associated wetlands form a "provincially significant wetland".
The lake is named after W. Wilcox Baldwin, a settler of the area who owned an estate situated on Yonge Street. A community of the same name is established around the lake.
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