The area became heavily industrialized in the nineteenth century. He was married to Erexina Wright, the granddaughter of Hull's founder, Philemon Wright. The lake is named after Andrew Leamy, an Irish settler in the region who operated a mill near the lake. To the south is the Lac de la Carrière, a former quarry that is now a lake that is also linked.
The lake is located just to the south of the Gatineau River, and just west of the Ottawa River, and is linked to both of them with flowing in from the Gatineau and exiting to the Ottawa. Leamy Lake (in French: Lac Leamy) is a lake in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
