Burk's Falls is an incorporated village in the Almaguin Highlands region of the Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada, located 265 kilometres (165 mi) north of Toronto and 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of North Bay, Ontario. The village was named after David Francis Burk of Oshawa, who named the location and the waterfall on the site after himself after he selected the land surrounding the waterfall in the Free Land Grant Act. Burk's Falls is part of the Magnetawan River waterway.
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