The Sturgeon River is a
river in the
Lake Huron
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drainage basin in the municipalities of
Tay
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,
Oro-Medonte
Oro-Medonte is a township in south-central Ontario, Canada, on the northwestern shores of Lake Simcoe in Simcoe County.
The two neighbouring townships of Oro and Medonte were merged in 1994, under a restructuring of Simcoe County. It is divide ...
and
Springwater in
Simcoe County,
Central
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Ontario,
Canada.
Course
The Sturgeon river begins at an unnamed
spring
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between the Simcoe Highlands and the western edge of the
Oro Moraine
The Oro Moraine is a glacial moraine in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
The moraine covers north of Barrie, Ontario. The moraine drains into Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, and the smaller Lake Simcoe.
Water transporting layers within the mor ...
,
and just west of the community of
Horseshoe Valley Horseshoe Valley may refer to:
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in Oro-Medonte. It passes north through Craigs Swamp, then under
Ontario Highway 400 and into Springwater southeast of the community of
Hillsdale. It flows over Rumbles Dam and re-enters Oro-Medonte. The river continues north, passes under Simcoe County Road 23 into Tay, then passes under
Ontario Highway 12 and through the communities of
Sturgeon Bay
Sturgeon Bay is an arm of Green Bay extending southeastward approximately 10 miles into the Door Peninsula at the city of Sturgeon Bay, located approximately halfway up the Door Peninsula. The bay is connected to Lake Michigan by the Sturge ...
and Sturgeon Beach to reach its mouth at Sturgeon Bay on Severn Sound, part of
Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.
See also
*
List of rivers of Ontario
This is the list of rivers which are in and flow through Ontario. The watershed list includes tributaries as well.
Dee River, flows between Three Mile Lake and Lake Rosseau.
List of rivers arranged by watershed Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
...
References
Sources
*
* Shows river course.
Rivers of Simcoe County
Tributaries of Georgian Bay
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