Montreal River (Lac la Ronge)

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Montreal River
Data
location Saskatchewan (Canada)
River system Churchill River
Drain over Rapid River  → Churchill River  → Hudson Bay
origin Montreal Lake
54 ° 32 '32 "  N , 105 ° 35' 57"  W.
Source height 490  m
muzzle in Lac la Ronge coordinates: 55 ° 5 ′ 38 ″  N , 105 ° 18 ′ 15 ″  W 55 ° 5 ′ 38 ″  N , 105 ° 18 ′ 15 ″  W
Mouth height 364  m
Height difference 126 m
Bottom slope approx. 1.3 ‰
length approx. 100 km
Catchment area 7280 km²
Drain at Bigstone Lake level MQ
 14 m³ / s
Flowing lakes Partridge Crop Lake , Sikachu Lake , Egg Lake , Bigstone Lake
Communities Air Ronge , La Ronge

The Montreal River is a river in central Saskatchewan , Canada .

It forms the drain of the Montreal Lake . From there it flows north to Lac la Ronge , which flows over the Rapid River to the Churchill River .

River course

The river begins at the north end of Montreal Lake, 3 miles north of the community of Molanosa and 2.5 miles west of Saskatchewan Highway 969 . It flows north, the Saskatchewan Highway 2 crosses the river at the level of the Montreal River Provincial Recreation Site . The river continues to flow north. The Saskatchewan Highway 165 crosses the river. The Montreal River turns east, flows through Partridge Crop Lake and Sikachu Lake, and reaches Egg Lake at Wawe Bay. It flows further east, flows through Bigstone Lake , crosses the Saskatchewan Highway 2 again, and finally reaches the Lac la Ronge between the municipalities of La Ronge and Air Ronge .

fauna

The following types of fish in the river: walleye , sauger , yellow perch , pike , lake trout , lake whitefish , Coregonus , burbot , which Redhorse Catostomus commersonii and Catostomus commersonii .

Runoff level

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Montreal River at the gauge at the outlet from Bigstone Lake - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET