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Lake Winnipeg is Canada's sixth-largest freshwater lake [3] and the third-largest freshwater lake contained entirely within Canada, but it is relatively shallow (mean depth of 12 m [39 ft]) [4] excluding a narrow 36 m (118 ft) deep channel between the northern and southern basins. It is the eleventh-largest freshwater lake on Earth.
Patricia Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park on the south-east shore of Balsam Bay on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. [1] [2] The park is located within the Rural Municipality of St. Clements and can be accessed by road from Manitoba Provincial Road 319. [2] In the summer, people relax by the lake on the fine sand beach. [3]
Lake Winnipegosis is a large (5,370 km 2) lake in central North America, in Manitoba, Canada, some 300 km northwest of Winnipeg. It is Canada's eleventh-largest lake. The lake's name derives from that of Lake Winnipeg, with a diminutive suffix. Winnipeg means 'big muddy waters' and Winnipegosis means 'little muddy waters'. [1]
Lake Area (includes islands) Altitude Depth max. Volume Lake Winnipeg [2] [3] 24,387 km 2 (9,416 sq mi) 217 m (712 ft) 36 m (118 ft) 284 km 3 (68 cu mi) Lake Winnipegosis [2] [3] 5,374 km 2 (2,075 sq mi) 254 m (833 ft) 18.3 m (60 ft) 19.8 km 3 (4.8 cu mi) Lake Manitoba [2] [3] 4,624 km 2 (1,785 sq mi) 248 m (814 ft) 7 m (23 ft)
The range of the chestnut lamprey extends from Lake Winnipeg and the Hudson Bay down the Mississippi River to the Central and Eastern United States; this includes any large lakes or reservoirs where large host fish are present. [6] In Canada, the chestnut lamprey has been found in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. [9]
Although Lake Winnipeg was once the main commercial source, it now comes from elsewhere, especially in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and the culinary name Winnipeg goldeye has come to be associated with the city where it is processed. [17] The fish is the namesake of Winnipeg's minor league baseball team, the Winnipeg Goldeyes. [citation needed]
The following is a list of common fish species known to occur in the lakes and rivers of Canada. ... Lake sturgeon. Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
Lake Winnipegosis Salt Flats Ecological Reserve is an ecological reserve located on the west of Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba, Canada. [2] It was established in 1992 under the Manitoba Ecological Reserves Act. [1] [3] It is 47.25 square kilometres (18.24 sq mi) in size. [1]