The Dauphin River is a river of Manitoba, Canada. The Dauphin is part of the connection from

Lake Manitoba Lake Manitoba (french: Lac Manitoba) is the List of lakes of Canada, 14th largest lake in Canada and the List of lakes by area, 33rd largest lake in the world with a total area of . It is located within the Provinces and territories of Canada, Cana ...

to Lake Winnipeg. The

Fairford River The Fairford River is a river of Manitoba, Canada. It flows out of the North end of Lake Manitoba into Lake Pineimuta and Lake St. Martin. Regulation of Lake Manitoba dates back to the late 1890s and in 1961 the dam on the river, the Fairford R ...

flows from Portage Bay in Lake Manitoba through to

Lake St. Martin Lake St. Martin is a lake in the Interlake region of Manitoba, Canada on Treaty 2 Land. The Lake is situated between Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg. Lake St. Martin is downstream from the Fairford River with its Fairford River Control Structure ...

then the Dauphin River continues north-eastward from Lake St. Martin into Lake Winnipeg. The two streams parallel

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much of the way. The Fairford River passes through the

Rural Municipality of Grahamdale Grahamdale is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It lies in the Interlake Region. It was incorporated as a Local Government District (LGD) on 1 January 1945, and became a Rural Municipality in 1997. The municipali ...

in its flow eastward. Water Survey of Canada has operated a hydrometric station on the Dauphin River near the community of Dauphin River (52°0'7" N, 98°19'47" W) since 1977. The gross drainage area above the monitoring station, excluding the diversion from the Assiniboine River near Portage la Prairie, is about . Henry Youle Hind writing around 1860, alternatively gave the Dauphin River the names Little Saskatchewan and Rapid River.Hind, Narrative of the Canadian Exploring Expeditions, p. vol. 1 480; vol. 2 460

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The Community of Dauphin River, Manitoba CANADA

Dauphin River First Nation
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