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The St. Lawrence River and the largest tributaries of the Great Lakes. The St. Lawrence River tributaries are listed upstream from the mouth. The major tributaries of the inter-lake sections are also shown, as well as the major rivers that flow into the Great Lakes. Great Lakes tributaries are listed in alphabetical order.
St. Lawrence River Estuary stretches from west to east for 655 km, from the outlet of Lake Saint Pierre to Pointe-des-Monts, [1] where it becomes the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Quebec, Canada. The estuary is divided into 3 parts: the fluvial estuary , the middle estuary and the maritime estuary .
It then narrowed back to a river and lead to the St. Lawrence River in Nuns' Island. Little St. Pierre River: created artificially in 1697 under the name of "St. Gabriel Canal". This channel connected the Saint-Pierre River (in the east part of Lake Otter) up to the Pointe-à-Callière Museum. One part was channelled as qu'égout (William ...
The St. Lawrence Seaway allows navigable shipping from the GLW to the Atlantic Ocean, while the Illinois Waterway extends commercial shipping to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. The Great Lakes Waterway is co-administered by the governments of Canada and the United States.
The Thousand Islands archipelago is at the outlet of Lake Ontario at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.The region is bisected by the Canada–United States border and covers portions of Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties in the U.S. state of New York, in addition to parts of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and Frontenac County in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands, or simply St. Lawrence Lowlands, is a physiographic region of Eastern Canada that comprises a section of southern Ontario bounded on the north by the Canadian Shield and by three of the Great Lakes — Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario — and extends along the St. Lawrence River to the Strait of Belle Isle [1] and the Atlantic Ocean.
The Gulf of St. Lawrence fringes the shores of the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, in Canada, plus the islands Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, possessions of France, in North America. [3] [4] The Gulf of St. Lawrence connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence ...
Lac Martin-Valin is a freshwater body of the watershed of bras des Canots, located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in the unorganized territory of Mont-Valin, in the Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, Canada.