Marchington Lake is a
lake in the
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay ( crj, text=ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, translit=Wînipekw; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, translit=Kangiqsualuk ilua or iu, text=ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, translit=Tasiujarjuaq; french: b ...
drainage basin located near
Sioux Lookout in the
Kenora District of
northwestern Ontario,
Canada.
Derived its name from John Samuels son William Marchington. William, who was a Parliamentary writer and later editor of Canada's national newspaper the 'Globe & Mail'. William also wrote for a couple of English newspapers. William had a golfing buddy who was a Cartographer, and as such he asked to use William's surname to name areas in the 'back country' of Ontario.
Hydrology
The lake lies roughly south-west to north-east, a distance of . There are two major
bay
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s on the lake: Northeast Bay, which forms the north-east end, and McDougall Bay, which forms a large hook at the south-west corner. Another arm forms a spike leading south-east from Northeast Bay.
The
Marchington River
The Marchington River is a river in the Hudson Bay drainage basin located in Kenora and Thunder Bay Districts in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It travels from its head at Kashaweogama Lake in Thunder Bay District through a series of lakes to M ...
flows into the lake at McDougall Bay and is also the outflow of the lake, at the south-west corner at
McDougall Mills. The
Sturgeon River is another main source, and flows into the lake at the spike-shaped arm at the south-eastern end. The
North River flows into the middle of the lake on the north-west side. Other inflows are (clockwise from north-east)
Watin Creek,
Kinniwap Creek,
Mall Creek,
Martin Creek and
Kee Creek. The Marchington River flows via the
English River, the
Winnipeg River and the
Nelson River to Hudson Bay.
Economy
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main line crosses the lake at its south-eastern arm near
Robinson, travels inland, then continues along the south-west corner of the lake past
Ghost River and McDougall Mills.
See also
*
List of lakes in Ontario
References
Atlas of Canadatopographic map sheets 52J3 and 52J4 accessed 2007-11-15
*{{cite map, url= http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/map/images/pdf/northont/sheets/Map13.pdf , format= PDF, title= Map 13, series= Official road map of Ontario, publisher=
Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, scale= 1 : 1,600,000, date=January 1, 2010, accessdate=November 15, 2007
Lakes of Kenora District