Kashabowie River

The Kashabowie River is a river in southwestern Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.[1][2][3][4] It is in the Great Lakes Basin and is a tributary of the Shebandowan Lakes.

Kashabowie River
Location of the mouth of the Kashabowie River in Ontario
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
RegionNortheastern Ontario
DistrictThunder Bay
CityKashabowie
Physical characteristics
SourceUnnamed lake
 • coordinates48°44′32″N 90°34′13″W
 • elevation468 m (1,535 ft)
MouthShebandowan Lakes
 • coordinates
48°38′47″N 90°25′09″W[1]
 • elevation
449 m (1,473 ft)
Basin features
River systemGreat Lakes Basin

Course

The river begins at an unnamed lake, flows east to Lily Lake, and continues east to Kashabowie Lake. It drains the lake at the south passing over a dam, passes under Ontario Highway 11, at this point part of the Trans-Canada Highway, then under the Canadian National Railway Kashabowie Subdivision main line,[5][6] built originally as the Canadian Northern Railway transcontinental main line;[7] both crossings are between the community of Kashabowie to the west and the railway point of Postans to the east. The Kashabowie River then reaches its mouth on the north shore of Upper Shebandowan Lake, part of the Shebandowan Lakes. The Shebandowan Lakes flow via the Shebandowan River, the Matawin River and the Kaministiquia River to Lake Superior.[1][2][3] A portion of the final stretch from Kashabowie Lake to Upper Shebandowan Lake lies in geographic Haines Township.[2][8]

Natural history

The 2,055-hectare (5,080-acre) Kashabowie Provincial Park is at the southeast of Kashabowie Lake and encompasses portions of the lake, and of the Sabrina Creek drainage basin including the mouth of Sabrina Creek at Kashabowie Lake.[2][9][10] The park has features resulting from the Wisconsian age like an "...esker complex, outwash apron, and a glaciated lake spillway."[10]

Tributaries
  • Kashabowie Lake
    • Crayfish Creek (right)
    • Sabrina Creek (left)
    • Athelstane Creek (left)

See also

References
  1. "Kashabowie River". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2018-07-02. (river)
  2. "CLAIMaps IV". Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. 2016. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  3. Map 13 (PDF) (Map). 1 : 1,600,000. Official road map of Ontario. Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  4. Restructured municipalities - Ontario map #2 (Map). Restructuring Maps of Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. 2006. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  5. Smith, Jeffrey P. "C.N.Rys. Kashabowie Subdivision". Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  6. "1957 Railway map of Canada". Atlas of Canada (3rd ed.). (1957-01-01) Government of Canada. Accessed 2018-07-02.
  7. "Ontario and Quebec Railway Territories". Atlas of Canada. (1915-01-01) Government of Canada. Accessed 2018-07-02.
  8. "Haines" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  9. "Kashabowie Provincial Park". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2018-07-02. (park)
  10. "Kashabowie". Ontario Parks. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
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