The Little Abitibi River is a river in northern Ontario. It runs about up into the
Abitibi Canyon
Abitibi Canyon was a community on the Abitibi River in northeastern Ontario, Canada. Abitibi Canyon was part of Northern Unorganized Cochrane District, in Cochrane District. It was located northeast of Fraserdale.
History
The construction of t ...
, where
Ontario Power Generation
Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) is a Crown corporations of Canada, Crown corporation and "government business enterprise" that is responsible for approximately half of the electricity generation in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is w ...
's
Abitibi Canyon Generating Station
Abitibi Canyon Generating Station is a hydroelectric power plant owned by Ontario Power Generation on the Abitibi River. The station is located 80 km north of Smooth Rock Falls, within Pitt Township in Northern Unorganized Cochrane Distric ...
dams the river at
Fraserdale
Fraserdale is an unincorporated place and Railroad switch, railroad point in Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part, Ontario, Unorganized Cochrane, North Part in Cochrane District, Ontario, Cochrane District, Northern Ontario, Northern Ontario, Canada ...
, an abandoned
railway town
A railway town, or railroad town, is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site.
North America
During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporar ...
.
It was made famous in "
The Black Fly Song" which concerned the construction of a dam on the Little Abitibi River, which was also referred to as "Little Ab."
See also
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Little Abitibi Provincial Park
Little Abitibi Provincial Park is a non-operating provincial park north of Cochrane, Ontario. It holds a network of small lakes which run into the Little Abitibi River. The Little Abitibi River runs about up into the Abitibi Canyon, where the ...
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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
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References
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Cochrane District Land Use Guidelines – General Resource Areas. The Little Abitibi River - New Post Creek Waterway, page 33 Atlas of Canada - Little Abitibi River
Rivers of Cochrane District
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