Fenelon Township

{{Short description|Former township in southern Ontario, Canada}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

File:Victoria county with fenelon highlighted.png

The Township of Fenelon was a municipality in present-day Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.{{cite cgndb|id= FBDVO|title= Fenelon|accessdate= 2018-07-07}}{{cite web|url= http://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/CLAIMaps/Index.html?site=CLAIMaps&viewer=CLAIMaps&locale=en-US |title= CLAIMaps IV|publisher= Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines|date= 2016|access-date= 2018-07-07}}{{cite map|url= http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/map/images/pdf/southont/sheets/Map5.pdf |format= PDF|title= Map 5|series= Official road map of Ontario|publisher= Ministry of Transportation of Ontario|scale= 1 : 700,000|date= 2010-01-01|access-date= 2018-07-07}}{{cite map|url= http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Asset6576.aspx|title= Restructured municipalities - Ontario map #5|year= 2006|series= Restructuring Maps of Ontario|publisher= Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing|access-date= 2018-07-07|archive-date= 2019-06-16|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190616153233/http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Asset6576.aspx|url-status= dead}} The township was named after François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (missionary) (1641–79) who was a missionary in New France, establishing a mission on the Bay of Quinte.Rayburn (1997) p. 118.

The community of Cambray within the township was named after Cambrai in France, where François Fénelon (1651–1715), younger brother of the missionary, was archbishop.Rayburn (1997) p. 52.