Cariad Lake is a small
lake
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in
Cochrane District
Cochrane District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1921 from parts of Timiskaming and Thunder Bay districts.
In 2016, the population was 79,682. The land area of thi ...
and
Timiskaming District
Timiskaming is a district and Census divisions of Canada, census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma District, Algoma, Nipissing District, Nipissing, and Sudb ...
, in
northeastern
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Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
The lake is in the
James Bay
James Bay (french: Baie James; cr, ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, Wînipekw, dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean, of which James Bay is the southernmost par ...
drainage basin
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and is the source of
Tomwool Creek. The nearest community is
Bourkes, to the east northeast.
Almost the entire lake is in
geographic
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Black Township
in the municipality of
Black River-Matheson
Black River-Matheson is a township in the Cochrane District of the Canadian province of Ontario. The municipality is astride the Black River, for which it is partly named. The Matheson railway station was serviced by the Northlander until 2012.
...
, Cochrane District; only a tiny sliver of southwest of the lake is in geographic
Lee Township in the
Unorganized West Part of Timiskaming District.
The lake is about long and wide. It has one unnamed island at the northwest. There is one unnamed inflow at the west. The primary outflow, at the southeast, is Tomwool Creek, which heads south to
Verona Lake. Tomwwool Creek flows via
Sarsfield Creek,
Meyers Lake,
Woollings Creek, the
Whiteclay River, the
Black River, the
Abitibi River
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...
and the
Moose River to James Bay.
See also
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List of lakes in Ontario
This is an incomplete list of lakes in Ontario, a province of Canada. There are over 250,000 lakes in Ontario, constituting around 20% of the world's fresh water supply.
Larger lake statistics
This is a list of lakes of Ontario with an ar ...
References
Other map sources:
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Lakes of Timiskaming District
Lakes of Cochrane District