{{Use Canadian English|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Bond Lake | image = Bond Lake.jpg | caption = Bond Lake seen from the eastern shore. | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry= | location = Richmond Hill, Ontario | coords = {{coord|43.933|-79.449|type:waterbody_region:CA-ON|display=inline,title}} | type = Kettle lake | inflow = Underground springs |pushpin_map=Ontario | outflow = | catchment = | basin_countries = Canada | length = ~{{convert|1000|m|ft}} | width = ~{{convert|200|m|ft}} | area = {{convert|55|acre|km2}} | depth = | max-depth = {{convert|32|m|ft}} | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = | islands = | cities = Richmond Hill | frozen = }}

'''Bond Lake''' is a {{convert|55|acre|ha|adj=on}} glacial kettle lake in the Oak Ridges Moraine.<ref name="TRCA">{{cite book |last1=Barrett |first1=Suzanne |last2=Scheinman |first2=Andre |title=Oak Ridges Corridor Park Management Plan |date=August 2006 |publisher=Toronto and Region Conservation Authority |pages=23–24 |url=https://trcaca.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/01/06110746/Oak-Ridges-Corridor-Park-Management-Plan-August-2006.pdf |accessdate=13 March 2023}}</ref> It is located on the east side of Yonge Street in the north end of Richmond Hill, Ontario.

==History==

Prior to the late 1800s the lake was surrounded by farms by various land holders: Whitneys' and Mortons', (William) Websters, whom acquired from Chief Justice Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto with tenant lease to James Legge. In the 1790s (1794 and 1797) 200 acres around the lake was granted to former Queen's York Rangers Sergeant William Bond.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edrh.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca//default.asp?ID=saa|title = Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 : Electronic edition. : Appendices}} Bond spent little time here and was living and working in York.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-BA1AQAAMAAJ&q=queens+rangers+william+bond&pg=PA307|title=The Diary of MRS. John Graves Simcoe: Wife of the First Lieutenant-governor of the Province of Upper Canada, 1792-6; with Notes and a Biography|last1=Simcoe|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Robertson|first2=John Ross|year=1911}}</ref> Initially called Bond's Pond and later as Bond Lake.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edrh.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca//default.asp?ID=s3.1|title=Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 : Electronic edition. : The European Settlers Arrive}}</ref> William Bell would sell his portion to developers responsible for Bond Lake Park.

Bond Lake Park was a recreation park from 1899 to 1929 owned by the Metropolitan Street Railway (Toronto) (MSR).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hikingthegta.com/2016/09/13/bond-lake/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwiLyuPy0f_tAhVvdt8KHQVsAFAQFjAYegQILhAB&usg=AOvVaw3y2Kx3Wx650TqjQCHKuArF&ampcf=1|title=Bond Lake|date=13 September 2016}}</ref> The park closed as the MSR was owned by the Toronto Transportation Commission (since 1922) and had little interest in owning non transit assets.

Today the lake and lands are part of a 175 acres Oakridges Corridor Conservation Reserves under the Toronto Region Conservation Authority.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trca.ca/parks/oak-ridges-corridor-conservation-reserve/|title=Oak Ridges Corridor Conservation Reserve}}</ref>

==Ecology== Due to rapid urbanization of adjacent lands, the lake is experiencing deterioration in water quality and loss of biodiversity. The most significant factor is contaminated surface runoff, especially external phosphorus loading.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roe |first1=Helen M. |last2=Patterson |first2=R. Timothy |last3=Swindles |first3=Graeme T. |title=Controls on the contemporary distribution of lake thecamoebians (testate amoebae) within the Greater Toronto Area and their potential as water quality indicators |journal=Journal of Paleolimnology |date=10 October 2009 |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=955–975 |doi=10.1007/s10933-009-9380-1}}</ref> The lake, together with the adjacent bog<sup>(which bog?)</sup>, is designated as an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Prior |first1=Paul |last2=Gonsalves |first2=Natasha |last3=Moleirinho |first3=Patricia |title=Town of Richmond Hill: Terrestrial Biological Inventory and Assessment |date=2015 |publisher=Toronto and Region Conservation Authority |page=4 |url=https://trca.ca/app/uploads/2016/02/RichmondHillTerrestrialInventory2014.pdf |accessdate=28 November 2018 |ref=TRCA1}}</ref>

===Fish=== The species diversity of the lake is low, due its isolated nature.<ref name="TRCA" /> The only species found in the lake are northern pike, emerald shiner, brown bullhead, banded killifish and pumpkinseed.

==References== {{reflist}} '''Literature cited''' {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book |last1=White |first1=Tecia Lyn |title=The Hydrogeological Function of Kettle Lakes on the Oak Ridges Moraine, Ontario, Canada |isbn=0612914852 |publisher=University of Toronto |ref=White}} {{Refend}}

==See also== * Preston Lake * Lake Wilcox

Category:Richmond Hill, Ontario Bond Lake Category:Landforms of the Regional Municipality of York