Missisa Lake

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Missisa Lake
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Missisa Lake
Location in Ontario
Location Kenora District, Ontario
Coordinates 52°19′08″N85°11′35″W / 52.31889°N 85.19306°W / 52.31889; -85.19306 Coordinates: 52°19′08″N85°11′35″W / 52.31889°N 85.19306°W / 52.31889; -85.19306
Primary outflows Missisa River
Basin  countries Canada
Max. length22 km (14 mi) [1]
Max. width13 km (8.1 mi) [1]
Surface elevation170 m (560 ft) [2]

Missisa Lake is a lake in northeastern Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. [3] It is in the James Bay drainage basin and is the source of the Missisa River, which begins at the southeast of the lake.

Lake A body of relatively still water, in a basin surrounded by land

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are also larger and deeper than ponds, though there are no official or scientific definitions. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams, which are usually flowing. Most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams.

Kenora District District in Ontario, Canada

Kenora District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It was created in 1907 from parts of Rainy River District. It is geographically the largest division in that province; at 407,213.01 square kilometres (157,225.82 sq mi), it comprises almost 38 percent of the province's land area, making it larger than Newfoundland and Labrador, and slightly smaller than Sweden.

Northwestern Ontario Secondary region in Ontario, Canada

Northwestern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario which lies north and west of Lake Superior, and west of Hudson Bay and James Bay. It includes most of subarctic Ontario. Its western boundary is the Canadian province of Manitoba, which disputed Ontario's claim to the western part of the region. Ontario's right to Northwestern Ontario was determined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1884 and confirmed by the Canada Act, 1889 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1912, the Parliament of Canada by the Ontario Boundaries Extension Act gave jurisdiction over the District of Patricia to Ontario, thereby extending the northern boundary of the province to Hudson Bay.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Missisa Lake" at Atlas of Canada. Accessed 2016-05-03.
  2. ↑ Taken from Google Earth. Accessed 2016-05-03.
  3. ↑ "Missisa Lake". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2016-05-03.

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Ministry of Transportation of Ontario government ministry in Ontario

The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) is the provincial ministry of the Government of Ontario that is responsible for transport infrastructure and related law in Ontario. The ministry traces its roots back over a century to the 1890s, when the province began training Provincial Road Building Instructors. In 1916, the Department of Public Highways of Ontario (DPHO) was formed and tasked with establishing a network of provincial highways. The first was designated in 1918, and by the summer of 1925, sixteen highways were numbered. In the mid-1920s, a new Department of Northern Development (DND) was created to manage infrastructure improvements in northern Ontario; it merged with the Department of Highways of Ontario (DHO) on April 1, 1937. In 1971, the Department of Highways took on responsibility for Communications and in 1972 was reorganized as the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC), which then became the Ministry of Transportation in 1987.

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