Gould Lake is a
lake
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mostly in
geographic
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Lee Township,
with a small part in geographic
Bompas Township in
Timiskaming District
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, in
northeastern
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Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
The south of the lake is in Bompas Township, and the north in Lee Township. The lake is also in the
James Bay
James Bay (french: Baie James; cr, ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, Wînipekw, dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean, of which James Bay is the southernmost par ...
drainage basin
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.
The primary inflow, at the south, is
Sarsfield Creek
Sarsfield Creek is a creek in Timiskaming District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is in the James Bay drainage basin and is a right tributary of Woollings Creek.
Course
The creek rises at Little Sarsfield Lake in geographic Bompas Townshi ...
, arriving from
Ellis Lake. The primary outflow, at the north, is also Sarsfield Creek, which heads north to
Sarsfield Lake
Sarsfield Lake is a small lake in Lee Township, Timiskaming District, in northeastern Ontario, Canada. The lake is in the James Bay drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single po ...
. Sarsfield Creek flows via
Meyers Lake, Woollings Creek, the Whiteclay River, the
Black River, the
Abitibi River
The Abitibi River is a river in northeastern Ontario, Canada, which flows northwest from Lake Abitibi to join the Moose River which empties into James Bay. This river is long, and descends . It is the fifth longest river entirely in Ontario
A ...
and the
Moose River to James Bay.
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
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References
Other map sources:
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Lakes of Timiskaming District
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