The Beaver River is a
river
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in
Durham Region
The Regional Municipality of Durham (), informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada. Located east of Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York, Durham forms the east-end of the Greater Tor ...
in
Central Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
It is part of the
Great Lakes Basin
The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada, whose dir ...
, and is a tributary of
Lake Simcoe
Lake Simcoe is a lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the fourth-largest lake wholly in the province, after Lake Nipigon, Lac Seul, and Lake Nipissing. At the time of the first European contact in the 17th century the lake was called ''Ouentironk' ...
. The river's
drainage basin
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is mostly in Durham Region with the remaining portion in the city of
Kawartha Lakes
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; the entire watershed is under the auspices of the
Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority
The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority is a conservation authority established in 1951, and is among the oldest in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The LSRCA is responsible for the waters, wildlife, and plants within the Lake Simcoe water ...
.
Course
The river begins at an unnamed
pond
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in Scugog on the Oak Ridges Moraine and heads north, passing briefly through Uxbridge, Ontario, Uxbridge before returning to Scugog. The river continues north and its valley becomes largely marshy, paralleled by the now defunct Toronto and Nipissing Railway line to Coboconk. The river passes under Ontario Highway 12/Ontario Highway 7 and enters Brock, Ontario, Brock. At the community of Cannington, Ontario, Cannington, the river turns northwest and reaches its mouth at Lake Simcoe at the community of Beaverton, Ontario, Beaverton.
Tributaries
*Vrooman Creek (left)
See also
*List of rivers of Ontario
References
Sources
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Rivers of the Regional Municipality of Durham
Tributaries of Lake Simcoe