The Brokenhead River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
in eastern
Manitoba
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. It flows north from its source in the Brokenhead Swamp
within
Sandilands Provincial Forest
The Sandilands Provincial Forest is a forest located within the southeastern area of Manitoba, Canada, and consists of thousands of acres of sand hills, forest, wetlands, and mostly unpopulated crown lands. Sandilands Provincial Forest covers ...
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to its mouth in
Lake Winnipeg
Lake Winnipeg (french: Lac Winnipeg, oj, ᐑᓂᐸᑲᒥᐠᓴᑯ˙ᑯᐣ, italics=no, Weenipagamiksaguygun) is a very large, relatively shallow lake in North America, in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Its southern end is about north of t ...
south of Stoney Point.
The Brokenhead is navigable by canoe for much of its length.
Fishers based in the
Brokenhead Ojibway Nation
Brokenhead Ojibway Nation (BON, oj, Baaskaandibewi-ziibiing, meaning ''at the brokenhead River'') is an Anishinaabe ( Saulteaux/ Ojibwa) First Nation located approximately northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The main reserve of Brokenhead 4 is su ...
use the lower reaches of the river to access Lake Winnipeg.
Brokenhead River Ecological Reserve preserves of river-bottom forest adjacent to the river in the
Rural Municipality of Brokenhead.
Hazel Creek joins the Brokenhead as a right tributary several miles north of PTH 15.
Bears Creek joins as a right tributary south of Mile 76 road N.
Beaver Creek joins as a left tributary south of PR 435.
The river passes by the localities of:
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Nourse
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Lydiatt
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St. Ouens,
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Green Bay
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Green Oak
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Brokenhead
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Dencross
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Scanterbury
The river is bridged by:
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Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway (French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on ...
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PTH 15
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PTH 44
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PR 435
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PR 317
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PTH 12
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PTH 59
See also
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List of Manitoba rivers
This is an incomplete list of rivers of Manitoba, a province of Canada.
Watersheds
The entire province of Manitoba is within the Hudson Bay drainage basin:
*Nelson River
**Lake Winnipeg watershed
***Winnipeg River
*** Red River
****Assiniboine ...
References
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Brokenhead River, Manitoba
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Rivers of Manitoba
Bodies of water of Eastman Region, Manitoba