Canoe River (Columbia River)
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| location | British Columbia ( Canada ) | |
| River system | Columbia River | |
| Drain over | Columbia River → Pacific Ocean | |
| Headwaters |
Cariboo Mountains , east of Mount Sir John Thompson 52 ° 44 ′ 35 ″ N , 119 ° 38 ′ 29 ″ W |
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| Source height | approx. 1100 m | |
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Kinbasket Lake Coordinates: 52 ° 46 '51 " N , 119 ° 10' 18" W 52 ° 46 '51 " N , 119 ° 10' 18" W. |
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| Mouth height | 579 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 521 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 12 ‰ | |
| length | 42 km | |
| Catchment area | approx. 605 km² | |
| Discharge at the gauge below Kimmel Creek A Eo : 305 km² Location: 24 km above the mouth |
MQ 1972/2016 Mq 1972/2016 |
14.8 m³ / s 48.5 l / (s km²) |
| Left tributaries | McKirdy Creek | |
| Right tributaries | Camp Creek | |
 The course of the Canoe River in the extreme north of the Columbia River basin |
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The Canoe River ( canoe English for " canoe ") is a 42 km long river in the east of the Canadian province of British Columbia . It forms the northernmost tributary of the Columbia River .
The headwaters of the Canoe River is located east of Mount Sir John Thompson at an altitude of about 1100 m in the north of the Cariboo Mountains . The Canoe River is fed by the Northern and Southern Canoe Glaciers . The Canoe River flows in an easterly direction through the mountains. British Columbia Highway 5 crosses the river 13 km above the estuary and 7 km south of Valemount . The Canoe River absorbs Camp Creek from the south and McKirdy Creek from the northeast, before flowing into the northern end of the 579 m high Kinbasket Lake .
From the 1820s to the 1840s, the York Factory Express , a Hudson's Bay Company trade route between the York Factory on Hudson Bay and Fort Vancouver , followed the river.
Hydrology
With the establishment of the Mica Dam on the Columbia River from 1969 to 1973 and its damming to Kinbasket Lake , the lower 90 kilometers of the Canoe River, which run along the Rocky Mountain Trench fault zone , were flooded. The northern part of the reservoir is also known as the Canoe Reach . The catchment area of the Canoe River at that time was about 3290 km², the mean discharge at the mouth at that time was about 100 m³ / s. The catchment area of the Canoe River shrank to an area of about 605 km². The mean discharge 24 km above the mouth is 14.8 m³ / s. The highest outflows usually occur during glacier ice melt between June and August.