The Black River is a
river
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in
Hastings County
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in
Central Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
It is part of the
Great Lakes Basin
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, and is a left tributary of the
Moira River
The Moira River is a river in Hastings County in eastern Ontario, Canada. It travels from its source in the centre of the county to the Bay of Quinte at the county seat Belleville .
Name
Originally named the Sagonaska River by the indigenous peo ...
.
Course
The river begins at an unnamed lake in
geographic
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Cashel Township,
part of the municipality of
Tudor and Cashel
Tudor and Cashel is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Hastings County.
The township consists of two non-contiguous portions, separated by Limerick township and the northernmost portion of Tweed.The municipality is mostly ...
, and northeast of the community of Gunter. It flows south then southeast, passes into geographic Grimsthorpe Township
in the municipality of
Tweed
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, and reaches Lingham Lake. It leaves the lake at the south and flows south into geographic Elzevir Township,
where it takes in the right tributary West Black River, arcs briefly west into the municipality of
Madoc
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,
then returns east into Elzevir Township near the community of
Queensborough. The river there goes over a
weir
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, continues south through a series of rapids, heads under
Ontario Highway 7
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, and reaches its mouth at the Moira River. The Moira River flows to the
Bay of Quinte
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on
Lake Ontario
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.
Recreation
The river is used by whitewater paddlers, particularly in spring as part of the M.A.C.K.fest (Marmora Area Canoe and Kayak Festival),
with the community of Queensborough serving as a friendly access point recognized by Whitewater Ontario.
Tributaries
*Railway Creek (right)
*Queensborough Creek (left)
*West Black River (right)
*Canniff Creek (left)
See also
*
List of rivers of Ontario
References
Other map sources:
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Rivers of Hastings County