Boyne River (Grey County)

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Boyne River
River
Hoggs Falls.jpg
The river passing over Hoggs Falls
Country Canada
Province Ontario
Region Southwestern Ontario
County Grey
Municipality Grey Highlands
Part of Great Lakes Basin
Tributaries
 - rightFlesherton Creek
Source Wilcox Lake
 - elevation469 m (1,539 ft)
 - coordinates 44°13′52″N80°33′30″W / 44.23111°N 80.55833°W / 44.23111; -80.55833
Mouth Beaver River
 - elevation295 m (968 ft)
 - coordinates 44°18′53″N80°32′22″W / 44.31472°N 80.53944°W / 44.31472; -80.53944 Coordinates: 44°18′53″N80°32′22″W / 44.31472°N 80.53944°W / 44.31472; -80.53944
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Location of the mouth of the Boyne River in southern Ontario

The Boyne River is a river in the municipality of Grey Highlands, Grey County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. [1] It is part of the Great Lakes Basin, and lies entirely within geographic Artemesia Township. [2]

River Natural flowing watercourse

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague.

Grey County County in Ontario, Canada

Grey County is a county of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is in Owen Sound. It is located in the subregion of Southern Ontario named Southwestern Ontario. Grey County is also a part of the Georgian Triangle. At the time of the Canada 2016 Census the population of the County was 93,830.

Southwestern Ontario Secondary region in Ontario, Canada

Southwestern Ontario is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It occupies most of the Ontario Peninsula bounded by Lake Huron, including Georgian Bay, to the north and northwest; the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, and Detroit River, to the west; and Lake Erie to the south. To the east, on land, Southwestern Ontario is bounded by Central Ontario and the Golden Horseshoe. The region had a population of 2,583,544 in 2016.

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Course

The river begins at Wilcox Lake and flows north under the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway line. It passes through Flesherton Community Pond at the community of Flesherton, then exits the pond over a weir and passes under Ontario Highway 10. It continues north and starts to descend the Niagara Escarpment by passing over the Hoggs Falls, [3] named after William Hogg,[ citation needed ] takes in the right tributary Flesherton Creek, and continues downhill to its mouth at the Beaver River west of the community of Eugenia. The Beaver River flows to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.

The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway was chartered in 1868 to build a narrow-gauge railway from Toronto to Grey and Bruce Counties in Ontario, Canada.

Flesherton Former Village in Ontario, Canada

Flesherton is a community in the Municipality of Grey Highlands, in Grey County, Ontario, Canada, located at the junction of Highway 10 and Grey County Road 4. Although the area initially showed a high rate of growth in the 1850s and its founder believed that it would become an important centre of economic activity, growth stagnated when an all-important rail link bypassed it, and the community never grew larger than a small village. The self-proclaimed "Gateway to the Beaver Valley" recently lost its autonomy as a village when it was amalgamated with the surrounding Artemesia Township.

Weir barrier across a river designed to alter its flow characteristics

A weir or low head dam is a barrier across the horizontal width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level. There are many designs of weir, but commonly water flows freely over the top of the weir crest before cascading down to a lower level.

Tributaries

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References

  1. "Boyne River". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2014-04-19.
  2. "Township of Artemesia" (JPG). Canadian County Atlas Project. McGill University. 2001. Retrieved 2014-04-19.
  3. "Hoggs Falls". County of Grey. Retrieved 2014-04-19.

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