Oskondaga River

Oskondaga River
	Location of the mouth of the Oskondaga River in Ontario
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Region	Northeastern Ontario
District	Thunder Bay
Physical characteristics
Source	Unnamed lake
⁃ location	Golding Township
⁃ coordinates	48°50′01″N89°54′15″W / 48.83361°N 89.90417°W
⁃ elevation	488 m (1,601 ft)
Mouth	Shebandowan River
⁃ location	Dawson Road Lots Township
⁃ coordinates	48°35′36″N89°54′21″W / 48.59333°N 89.90583°W Coordinates: 48°35′36″N89°54′21″W / 48.59333°N 89.90583°W
⁃ elevation	397 m (1,302 ft)
Basin features
River system	Great Lakes Basin
Tributaries
⁃ left	East Oskondaga River

Last updated October 01, 2019

The Oskondaga River is a river in Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.^[1] It is in the Great Lakes Basin and is a left tributary of the Shebandowan River. The river valley is paralleled by Ontario Highway 17, at this point part of the Trans-Canada Highway; and by both the Canadian Pacific Railway transcontinental main line, still in operation, and the Canadian National Railway Graham Subdivision main line, originally built as part of the National Transcontinental Railway, now abandoned.

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.

Thunder Bay District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district seat is Thunder Bay.

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.

Course

The river begins at an unnamed lake in geographic Golding Township, just north of the community of Raith,^[2] at the watershed divide between the Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean drainage basins.^[3]^[4] It heads southeast, then south, enters geographic Goldie Township,^[5] and takes in the left tributary East Oskondaga River. The river continues south into geographic Dawson Road Lots Township,^[6] flows under Ontario Highway 17 and the concurrent Ontario Highway 11 at the community of Shabaqua Corners,^[7] and reaches its mouth at the Shebandowan River. The Shebandowan River flows via the Matawin River and the Kaministiquia River to Lake Superior.

Raith is a dispersed rural community and unincorporated area in geographic Golding Township in the Unorganized Part of Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans, with an area of about 106,460,000 square kilometers. It covers approximately 20 percent of Earth's surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area. It separates the "Old World" from the "New World".

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Sea. It is classified as an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, and it is also seen as the northernmost part of the all-encompassing World Ocean.

Tributaries

East Oskondaga River (left)

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References

↑ "Oskondaga River". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2014-09-01.
↑ "Raith". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2014-09-01.
↑ "The Arctic Watershed". Ontario's Historical Plaques. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
↑ "Arctic Watershed, The". Online Plaque Guide. Ontario Heritage Trust . Retrieved 2014-09-01.
↑ "Goldie" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry . Retrieved 2014-09-01.
↑ "Dawson Road" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
↑ "Shabaqua Corners". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2014-09-01.

Sources

Map 13 (PDF) (Map). 1 : 1,600,000. Official road map of Ontario. Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. 2014. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
Restructured municipalities - Ontario map #2 (Map). Restructuring Maps of Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. 2006. Retrieved 2014-09-01.

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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[CGNDB-1] "Oskondaga River". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2014-09-01.

[CGNDBDRaith-2] "Raith". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2014-09-01.

[3] "The Arctic Watershed". Ontario's Historical Plaques. Retrieved 2014-09-01.

[4] "Arctic Watershed, The". Online Plaque Guide. Ontario Heritage Trust . Retrieved 2014-09-01.

[GoldieMining-5] "Goldie" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry . Retrieved 2014-09-01.

[DawsonRoadMining-6] "Dawson Road" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-09-01.

[CGNDBDShabaquaCorners-7] "Shabaqua Corners". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2014-09-01.