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Black Donald Lake is a
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in the Township of Greater Madawaska,
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, and the Township of North Frontenac,
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, in
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,
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. It is on the Madawaska River and is part of the
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. The major inflow, at the west, is the Madawaska River, which arrives directly from Centennial Lake at the same elevation as Black Donald Lake. Secondary inflows are Black Donald Creek and Little Black Donald Creek at the centre north. The major outflow is also the Madawaska River, which flows over the dam at the
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Mountain Chute Generating Station (
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) to Norcan Lake at the southeast. Norcan Lake drains via the Madawaska River to the
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to the Saint Lawrence River and thence to the Atlantic Ocean. The settlement of
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appears in the Natural Resources Canada Place names database and displays as being located on the southeast shore of the lake at the intersection of Chimo Road South and Far Side Lane. In fact, there is no town of Black Donald, at that location or anywhere else. The town of Black Donald was flooded after the construction of Mountain Chute dam and no longer exists. From the outflow of the lake almost to the major inflow of the Madawaska River from Centennial Lake, Black Donald Lake forms the boundary between Greater Madawaska, Renfrew County and North Frontenac, Frontenac County.


History

Black Donald Lake and Centennial Lake adjacent upstream were created by the construction of the Mountain Chute Generating Station and dam and an associated
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in 1965–1966. Black Donald Lake subsumed the previous White Fish Lake and drowned the former mining community of Black Donald Mines, whose
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mine by then had been exhausted. The reservoir took six months to fill and flooded . The lake is primarily used for recreation, tourism and
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.


Transportation

Renfrew County Road 65 skirts the northern and eastern shores of the lake.
Renfrew/Black Donald Lake Water Aerodrome Renfrew/Black Donald Lake Water Aerodrome is a water based aerodrome that is located on Black Donald Lake in Greater Madawaska, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada, about south southwest of the town of Renfrew Renfrew (; sco, Renfrew; gd, Ri ...
is a
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on the north shore of the lake.


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See also

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List of lakes in Ontario This is an incomplete list of lakes in Ontario, a province of Canada. There are over 250,000 lakes in Ontario, constituting around 20% of the world's fresh water supply. Larger lake statistics This is a list of lakes of Ontario with an ar ...


References

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