The Misema River is a
river
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in
Timiskaming District
Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from p ...
and
Cochrane District
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In 2021, the district's population was 77,963, with a l ...
in
Northeastern Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
It is in the
Saint Lawrence River
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drainage basin
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and is a left tributary of the
Blanche River.
Course
The river begins at
Sullivan Lake in
geographic
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Ben Nevis Township
Ben Nevis Township is an unincorporated geographic township in the Unorganized North part of Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The township is named for Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles.
Sullivan Lake and L ...
, Cochrane District.
It exits the lake at the northeast and travels counterclockwise around the Pushkin Hills, part of the
Blake River Megacaldera Complex, eventually heading south into Timiskaming District and
Misema Lake, where it takes in the left tributary
Little Misema River in geographic
Katrine Township.
It heads south, passes under the former
Ontario Northland Railway
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Originally built to develop the Lake Timiskaming ...
's
Nipissing Central Railway branchline and
Ontario Highway 66, flows west through South Grassy Lake, the south and west again over the Eighty Foot Falls, site of
Canadian Hydro Developers' Misema Dam and 3.2 MW
hydroelectric
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powerplant,
and reaches its mouth at the Blanche River in
Marter Township on the border with
Chamberlain to the west. The Blanche River flows via the
Ottawa River
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to the Saint Lawrence River.
Tributaries
*Spring Creek (left)
*McElroy Creek (right)
*Estrangement Creek (left)
*Victoria Creek (right)
*Kinabik Creek (left)
*
Little Misema River (left)
See also
*
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
...
References
Sources
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Rivers of Timiskaming District
Rivers of Cochrane District