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Rivers on this list shown on a map of Canada The Mackenzie River is the longest stream in Canada if measured from its mouth on the Beaufort Sea to the headwaters of the Finlay River, a major upstream tributary. The main stem, a much shorter segment of the Mackenzie, is marked in dark blue.
Drainage basins of Canada. The major Canadian drainage basins are the following: [1] [2] Arctic Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Hudson Bay including James Bay and Ungava Bay; Atlantic Ocean including the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Drainage basin; Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River basin
The river discharges more than 325 cubic kilometres (78 cu mi) of water each year, accounting for roughly 11% of the total river flow into the Arctic Ocean. [32] [33] The river is frozen for most of the year, with the ice typically breaking up by early to mid-May in the south, and late May-early June in the north. [34]
Located along the Ottawa River, it lies about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north-west of Ottawa on the Trans-Canada Highway. Deep River is opposite the Laurentian Mountains and the Province of Quebec. The name "Deep River" purportedly derives from the notion that the Ottawa River reaches its greatest depth of 402 feet (123 m) just outside the township.
The river has been called a variety of names by local First Nations. Beginning in the 16th century, French explorers visited what is now Canada and gave the river names such as the Grand fleuve de Hochelaga and the Grande rivière du Canada, [8] where fleuve and rivière are two French words (fleuve being a river that flows into the sea).
The Fraser River (/ ˈ f r eɪ z ər /) is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 kilometres (854 mi), into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver.
The Ottawa River drains into the Lake of Two Mountains and the St. Lawrence River at Montreal. The river is 1,271 km (790 mi) long; it drains an area of 146,300 km 2 (56,500 sq mi), 65 per cent in Quebec and the rest in Ontario, with a mean discharge of 1,950 m 3 /s (69,000 cu ft/s). [1]
The Saguenay River (French: Rivière Saguenay, [ʁivjɛʁ saɡnɛ]) is a major river of Quebec, Canada. It drains Lac Saint-Jean in the Laurentian Highlands , leaving at Alma and running east; the city of Saguenay is located on the river.