The Temagami River, formerly spelled as Timagami River, is a river in the
Nipissing District
Nipissing District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1858. The district seat is North Bay.
In 2016, the population was 83,150. The land area is ; the population density was , making it o ...
of Ontario, Canada, in the
Temagami
Temagami, formerly spelled as Timagami, is a municipality in northeastern Ontario, Canada, in the Nipissing District with Lake Temagami at its heart.
The Temagami region is known as ''n'Daki Menan'', the homeland of the area's First Nations commu ...
region.
Its source is
Lake Temagami
Lake Temagami, formerly spelled as Lake Timagami, is a lake in Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada, situated approximately 80 km north of North Bay. The lake's name comes from ''dimii-agamiing'' "tih-MEE-uh-guh-MEENG", which me ...
and flows through
Cross Lake
Cross Lake is a lake on the border of Cayuga and Onondaga Counties in New York, United States. The lake lies within the boundaries of the traditional Onondaga Indian Nation, and is reputed in local tradition to be the boyhood home of Hiawatha, ...
and
Red Cedar Lake. It flows into the
Sturgeon River at the community of
River Valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...
.
The Temagami River is well known for its outstanding
whitewater
Whitewater forms in a rapid context, in particular, when a river's gradient changes enough to generate so much turbulence that air is trapped within the water. This forms an unstable current that froths, making the water appear opaque and ...
paddling opportunities. It has a high concentration of novice to advanced whitewater stretches mixed with calm flatwater, in all 20 sets of rapids, rated CI to CIII that can be run all season.
In particular, the rapids of Ragged Chutes are popular with canoeists.
Its water level is controlled by the Cross Lake Dam, located on Surveyor Lake, which is also used to control waterflow out of Lake Temagami. Another 3 dams are on the river at Red Cedar Lake.
Fish species found in the Temagami River include
smallmouth bass,
largemouth bass
The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, but ...
,
walleye
The walleye (''Sander vitreus'', synonym ''Stizostedion vitreum''), also called the yellow pike or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relat ...
, and
northern pike
The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus '' Esox'' (the pikes). They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). They are known simply as a ...
.
Temagami River Provincial Park
The Temagami River Provincial Park protects a long section of the river and its banks, from Surveyor Lake to Baie Jeanne Road which is about northeast of its mouth at River Valley. Also included are all of Thistle Lake and the islands in the southern part of Red Cedar Lake.
It was established in 2000 and protects an outstanding water route that provides recreational paddling opportunities. Other activities include hunting, fishing, and wildlife/nature viewing.
The eastern side of the park abuts the Holdridge Creek Conservation Reserve.
Mostly
white cedar White cedar may refer to several different trees:
* Bignoniaceae
** ''Tabebuia heterophylla'' - native to Caribbean islands and also cultivated as an ornamental tree
* Cupressaceae:
** ''Chamaecyparis thyoides'' – Atlantic white cypress
** ''Cup ...
and
yellow birch
''Betula alleghaniensis'', the yellow birch, golden birch, or swamp birch, is a large tree and an important lumber species of birch native to northeastern North America. Its vernacular names refer to the golden color of the tree's bark. In the pa ...
are found along the upper portions of the river, with mature or old pine/mixed
hardwood
Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from ...
stands on the valley slopes. The Red Cedar and Thistle Lakes area typically contains old-growth pine forests, as well as
black ash Black ash is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
* '' Acer negundo'', native to North America
* ''Fraxinus nigra'', native to North America
* ''Eucalyptus sieberi
''Eucalyptus sieberi'', commonly known as the silvertop ash or bl ...
swamps, with mixed and tolerant hardwood uplands. The lower section of the Temagami River is lined with mixed pine communities on the north shore, and pine/hardwood forests on the south shore. Also found in this section are black ash swamps and open wetlands. The forests in the park are moderately-rich to rich
conifer
Conifers are a group of conifer cone, cone-bearing Spermatophyte, seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the phylum, division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single ...
ous forests, or
sugar maple
''Acer saccharum'', the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and eastern United States. Sugar maple is best known for being the prima ...
forests, with
red maple
''Acer rubrum'', the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest Service recognizes it as the most abundant nativ ...
and
red oak
The genus Oak, ''Quercus'' contains about 500 species, some of which are listed here. The genus, as is the case with many List of the largest genera of flowering plants, large genera, is Taxonomic rank#Ranks in botany, divided into subgenus, subgen ...
in the uplands.
It is a non-operating park, meaning that there are no services. The only facilities are 15 backcountry campsites.
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
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External links
Temagami River Provincial Park – official website
Rivers of Temagami