The Sturgeon River is a
river
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in the
Lake Huron
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drainage basin
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in the municipalities of
Tay,
Oro-Medonte
Oro-Medonte is a township in south-central Ontario, Canada, on the northwestern shores of Lake Simcoe in Simcoe County. The Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church School was a rural segregated Black school established in 1849 in Oro-Medonte, O ...
and
Springwater in
Simcoe County
Simcoe County is a county and census division located in the central region of Ontario, Canada. The county is located north of the Greater Toronto Area, and forms the north western edge of the Golden Horseshoe. The county seat is located in Mi ...
,
Central Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
Course
The Sturgeon river begins at an unnamed
spring between the Simcoe Highlands and the western edge of the
Oro Moraine
The Oro Moraine is a glacial moraine in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
The moraine covers north of Barrie, Ontario. The moraine drains into Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, and the smaller Lake Simcoe.
Water transporting layers within the morai ...
,
and just west of the community of
Horseshoe Valley in Oro-Medonte. It passes north through Craigs Swamp, then under
Ontario Highway 400
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and into Springwater southeast of the community of
Hillsdale. It flows over Rumbles Dam and re-enters Oro-Medonte. The river continues north, passes under Simcoe County Road 23 into Tay, then passes under
Ontario Highway 12
King's Highway 12, commonly referred to as Highway 12 and historically known as the Whitby and Sturgeon Bay Road, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway connects the eastern end of the Greater Toron ...
and through the communities of
Sturgeon Bay and Sturgeon Beach to reach its mouth at Sturgeon Bay on Severn Sound, part of
Georgian Bay
The Georgian Bay () is a large bay of Lake Huron, in the Laurentia bioregion. It is located entirely within the borders of Ontario, Canada. The main body of the bay lies east of the Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island. To its northwest is t ...
on Lake Huron.
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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* Shows river course.
Rivers of Simcoe County
Tributaries of Georgian Bay
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