Seven Sisters Falls is a community in the

Rural Municipality of Whitemouth The Rural Municipality of Whitemouth is a rural municipality located in southeastern Manitoba. The community of Whitemouth is located in the municipality, which also contains the , and small parts of Manitoba's Agassiz Provincial Forest (in its ...

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. It is the location of

Manitoba Hydro The Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board, operating as Manitoba Hydro, is the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1961, it is a provincial Crown Corporation, governed by the Manitoba Hydro-Electric Boa ...

Seven Sisters Generating Station The Seven Sisters Generating Station is a hydroelectric generating station located on the Winnipeg River, in eastern Manitoba near Seven Sisters Falls, Manitoba. The reservoir is called Natalie Lake and is used for recreational boating and fishi ...

and the Whitemouth Falls Provincial Park. Seven Sisters Falls was named by

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for a series of seven rapids that were located along the

Winnipeg River The Winnipeg River is a Canadian river that flows roughly northwest from Lake of the Woods in the province of Ontario to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. This river is long from the Norman Dam in Kenora to its mouth at Lake Winnipeg. Its watershed is ...

which are now the site of the hydroelectric dam.

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{{manitoba-geo-stub Unincorporated communities in Eastman Region, Manitoba