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Black River (Kenora District)

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- location
  
Work Township

- location
  
MacQuarrie Township

Source
  
Unnamed lake

Country
  
Canada

- elevation
  
378 m (1,240 ft)

- elevation
  
322 m (1,056 ft)

Mouth
  
Lake of the Woods

Province
  
Ontario

Black River (Kenora District)

The Black River is a river in the municipality of Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls, Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Hudson Bay drainage basin, and is a tributary of the Lake of the Woods.

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Course

The river begins at an unnamed lake in geographic Work Township and heads southwest through Ulster Lake and under Ontario Highway 71 to Black Lake. It continues southwest, passes into geographic MacQuarrie Township then Yellow Girl Bay 32B Indian Reserve (part of the Naotkamegwanning First Nation), and reaches its mouth at Long Bay on the northeast side of the Lake of the Woods. The Lake of the Woods flows via the Winnipeg River and the Nelson River to Hudson Bay.

Tributaries

  • Graphic Creek (right)
  • Johnny Creek (left)
  • References

    Black River (Kenora District) Wikipedia