The Pembina River is a
river
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in the
Unorganized Part of
Kenora District in
Northwestern Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
The river is part of 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
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...
, and flows from Pembina Lake to Pembina Bay on the north shore of
Lake St. Joseph. The latter lake is the source of the
Albany River
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*Albany, Western Australia, port city in the Great Southern
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, which flows to James Bay.
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Rivers of Kenora District
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