The Black River (french: rivière Black) 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
Lake of the Woods (french: Lac des Bois, oj, Pikwedina Sagainan) is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. Lake of the Woods is over long and wide, containing more than 14,55 ...
.
Course
The river begins at an unnamed lake in
geographic
Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...
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 Naotkamegwanning First Nation, formerly known as Whitefish Bay First Nation and known in the Ojibwe language as ''Ne-adikamegwaning'' (Of the Whitefish Point), is an Ojibwe Nation from the Treaty Three Territory a 45min drive from Kenora, Ontario a ...
), 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)
See also
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List of rivers of Ontario
This is the list of rivers which are in and flow through Ontario. The watershed list includes tributaries as well.
Dee River, flows between Three Mile Lake and Lake Rosseau.
List of rivers arranged by watershed Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
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References
Other external map sources
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Rivers of Kenora District
Tributaries of Hudson Bay