| Wiegand River | |
|---|---|
  Location of the mouth of the Wiegand River in Ontario | |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| Region | Northeastern Ontario |
| District | Thunder Bay |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Adrian Lake |
| - location | Adrian Township |
| - coordinates | 48°27′22″N89°49′22″W / 48.45611°N 89.82278°W |
| - elevation | 518 m (1,699 ft) |
| Mouth | Matawin River |
| - location | Horne Township |
| - coordinates | 48°33′02″N89°50′46″W / 48.55056°N 89.84611°W Coordinates: 48°33′02″N89°50′46″W / 48.55056°N 89.84611°W |
| - elevation | 367 m (1,204 ft) |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Great Lakes Basin |
The Wiegand River is a river in Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. [1] It is in the Great Lakes Basin and is a right tributary of the Matawin River.
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.
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The river begins at Adrian Lake [2] in geographic AdrianTownship, [3] and heads northwest. It turns northeast, enters geographic Horne Township, [4] and reaches its mouth at the Matawin River. The Matawin River flows via the Kaministiquia River to Lake Superior.
The Kaministiquia River is a river which flows into western Lake Superior at the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Kaministiquia (Gaa-ministigweyaa) is an Ojibwe word meaning "(river) with islands" due to two large islands at the mouth of the river. The delta has three branches or outlets, reflected on early North American maps in French as "les trois rivières" : the southernmost is known as the Mission River, the central branch as the McKellar River, and the northernmost branch as the Kaministiquia. Residents of the region commonly refer to the river as the Kam River.
Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes of North America, is also the world's largest freshwater lake by surface area, and the third largest freshwater lake by volume. The lake is shared by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, the U.S. state of Minnesota to the west, and Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to the south. The farthest north and west of the Great Lakes chain, Superior has the highest elevation of all five great lakes and drains into the St. Mary's River.
