Swan Lake is a

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Lee Township and geographic Maisonville Township in the Unorganized West Part of

Timiskaming District Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from pa ...

, in

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. The lake is in 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 ...

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and the nearest community is Sesekinika, to the northeast. Swan Lake is the location of the mouth of

Woollings Creek Woollings Creek is a creek in Timiskaming District and Cochrane District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is in the James Bay drainage basin and is a tributary of the Whiteclay River. Course The creek begins at Big Finlander Lake in geograp ...

and is the source of the

Whiteclay River The Whiteclay River is a river in Cochrane District and Timiskaming District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is in the James Bay drainage basin and is a left tributary of the Black River. Course The river begins at Swan Lake in geographic ...

. The western third of the lake is in Lee Township; the rest of the lake is in Maisonville Township. The lake is about long and wide. The primary inflow is Woollings Creek arriving from Meyers Lake at north; there are two unnamed secondary inflows at the northwest and a third at the west. The primary outflow, at the east, is the Whiteclay River, which flows via the Black River, the

Abitibi River The Abitibi River is a river in northeastern Ontario, Canada, which flows northwest from Lake Abitibi to join the Moose River which empties into James Bay. This river is long, and descends . It is the fifth longest river entirely in Ontario A ...

and the Moose River to James Bay. There is a private

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suitable for

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on the east side of the lake, accessible directly from Ontario Highway 11 just to the east.

References

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