The Misema River is a
river
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in
Timiskaming District
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and
Cochrane District
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In 2016, the population was 79,682. The land area of th ...
in
Northeastern Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
It is in the
Saint Lawrence River
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drainage basin
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and is a left tributary of the
Blanche River.
Course
The river begins at
Sullivan Lake in
geographic
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Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District.
It exits the lake at the northeast and travels counterclockwise around the Pushkin Hills, part of the
Blake River Megacaldera Complex, eventually heading south into Timiskaming District and
Misema Lake, where it takes in the left tributary
Little Misema River in geographic
Katrine Township.
It heads south, passes under the former
National Transcontinental Railway main line transcontinental railroad
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and
Ontario Highway 66
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, flows over the Eighty Foot Falls, site of
Canadian Hydro Developers' Misema Dam and 3.2 MW
hydroelectric powerplant,
and reaches its mouth at the Blanche River in
Marter Township on the border with
Chamberlain
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to the west. The Blanche River flows via the
Ottawa River to the Saint Lawrence River.
Tributaries
*Spring Creek (left)
*McElroy Creek (right)
*Estrangement Creek (left)
*Victoria Creek (right)
*Kinabik Creek (left)
*
Little Misema River (left)
See also
*
List of rivers of Ontario
References
Sources
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Rivers of Timiskaming District
Rivers of Cochrane District