The Deer River is a
river
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in
Census division
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23 in
Northern
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Geography
* North
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Manitoba
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,
Canada
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.
It is in the
Hudson Bay drainage basin
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and is a
right tributary
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of the
Dog River Dog River may refer to:
Canada
* Dog River (Ontario), a river in Thunder Bay District, Ontario
* Dog River (Manitoba), a river in Northern Region, Manitoba
* Dog River, Saskatchewan, a fictional setting for the television series ''Corner Gas''
Un ...
.
Course
The Deer River begins at an unnamed lake, just east of the
Churchill River and flows east, through the Deer Lakes, and continues east, reaching a maximum separation with the Churchill River of about . It then turns north, and is roughly paralleled for the rest of its course by the
Hudson Bay Railway; it passes closest to the railway points on the line (each with a flag stop railway station) of M'Clintock, Chesnaye and
Lamprey
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. The river reaches its mouth at the
Dog River Dog River may refer to:
Canada
* Dog River (Ontario), a river in Thunder Bay District, Ontario
* Dog River (Manitoba), a river in Northern Region, Manitoba
* Dog River, Saskatchewan, a fictional setting for the television series ''Corner Gas''
Un ...
, just upstream of that river's mouth at the Churchill River. The Churchill River flows to Hudson Bay.
Tributaries
*Lost Moose Creek (right)
*Clifford Smith Creek (left)
*Robert Thomson Creek (left)
References
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Rivers of Northern Manitoba
Hudson Bay drainage basin