Sturgeon Lake is a lake located south of
Tomiko and north-east of
Highway 11 /
Trans-Canada Highway
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in the
Nipissing District
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In 2016, the population was 83,150. The land area is ; the population density was , making it o ...
of
northeastern
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Ontario
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, Canada.
It is in
geographic
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Stewart Township and is part of the
Great Lakes Basin
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.
The lake flows west through a
channel
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into
Little Tomiko Lake; the
Ontario Northland Railway
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Originally built to develop the Lake Timiskaming and Lake Nipissing area ...
line from
North Bay to
Cochrane Cochrane may refer to:
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*Cochrane railway station, Sydney, a railway station on the closed Ropes Creek railway line
Canada
* Cochrane, Alberta
* Cochrane Lake, Alberta
* Cochrane District, Ontario
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crosses that channel. Little Tomiko Lake empties via the
Little Tomiko River, the
Tomiko River, the
Sturgeon River,
Lake Nipissing
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, and the
French River to
Georgian Bay
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on
Lake Huron
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.
See also
*
List of lakes of Ontario
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Larger lake statistics
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References
Lakes of Nipissing District
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