List of rivers of Canada

Last updated July 05, 2025

The list of rivers of Canada is organized by drainage basin and province.

Canadian drainage basins

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

Footnotes

↑ Atlas of Canada. "Rivers in Canada". Archived from the original on 4 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
↑ Ayers, H. d. "Drainage Basin". The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 17, 2019.

External links

Government of Canada – Canadian Geographical Names database
The Canadian Council for Geographic Education – Rivers of Canada – How they shaped our country
Atlas of Canada – Rivers
"GEONet Names Server". National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency . Retrieved June 25, 2021., GEOnet Names Server

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[Rivers-1] Atlas of Canada. "Rivers in Canada". Archived from the original on 4 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-01.

[2] Ayers, H. d. "Drainage Basin". The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 17, 2019.

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List of rivers of Canada

Contents

Canadian drainage basins

Rivers by drainage basins

Rivers by Canadian provinces and territories

See also

Footnotes

External links