The Weir River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in the
Hudson Bay drainage basin in
census division
Census divisions, in Canada and the United States of America, United States, are areas delineated for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation; they have no government in and of themselves. The census divisions of Canada are second-lev ...
23 in
Northern Manitoba,
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
.
Its flows from
Weir Lake to the
Nelson River as a left tributary, upstream of that river's mouth at
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay ( crj, text=ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, translit=Wînipekw; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, translit=Kangiqsualuk ilua or iu, text=ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, translit=Tasiujarjuaq; french: b ...
.
There is a
flag stop on the
Hudson Bay Railway where it crosses the river. Canoeists and hikers can wait by a signpost to flag down the
Via Rail Winnipeg–Churchill train
The Winnipeg–Churchill train (formerly known as the ''Hudson Bay'' and, before that, ''Northern Spirits'') is a semiweekly passenger train operated by Via Rail between Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba. It is the only dry-land connection betwe ...
.
See also
*
List of rivers of Manitoba
This is an incomplete list of rivers of Manitoba, a province of Canada.
Watersheds
The entire province of Manitoba is within the Hudson Bay drainage basin:
*Nelson River
**Lake Winnipeg watershed
***Winnipeg River
*** Red River
****Assiniboine ...
References
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Rivers of Northern Manitoba
Tributaries of Hudson Bay