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Ottawa River

Index Ottawa River

The Ottawa River (Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: Kitchissippi) is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. [1]

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Abitibi River

The Abitibi River is a river in northeastern Ontario, Canada, which flows northwest from Lake Abitibi to join the Moose River which empties into James Bay.

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Algonquin language

Algonquin (also spelled Algonkin; in Algonquin: Anicinàbemowin or Anishinàbemiwin) is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect.

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Algonquin people

The Algonquins are indigenous inhabitants of North America who speak the Algonquin language, a divergent dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is part of the Algonquian language family.

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American eel

The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America.

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Arnprior

Arnprior is a town in Renfrew County, in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, Canada.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Aylmer, Quebec

Aylmer is a former city in Quebec, Canada.

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Étienne Brûlé

Étienne Brûlé (c. 1592 – c. June 1633) was the first European explorer to journey beyond the St. Lawrence River in what is today Canada.

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Bog

A bog is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss.

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Bonnechere River

The Bonnechere River is a river in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin in Nipissing District and Renfrew County in eastern and northeastern Ontario, Canada.

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Bristol, Quebec

Bristol is a municipality in the Outaouais region, part of the Pontiac Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.

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Campbell's Bay, Quebec

Campbell's Bay is a municipality in Pontiac Regional County Municipality in western Quebec, Canada.

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Canadian canoe routes

Canadian canoe routes (early): This article covers the water routes used by early explorers of Canada with special emphasis on the fur trade.

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Canadian Heraldic Authority

The Canadian Heraldic Authority (CHA; L'Autorité héraldique du Canada) is part of the Canadian honours system under the Canadian monarch, whose authority is exercised by the Governor General of Canada.

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Canadian Museum of History

The Canadian Museum of History (Musée canadien de l’histoire), formerly the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Musée canadien des civilisations), is Canada's national museum of human history.

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Carillon Canal

The Carillon Canal is a National Historic Site of Canada in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec.

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Carillon Generating Station

The Carillon Generating Station (in French: centrale de Carillon) is a hydroelectric power station on the Ottawa River near Carillon, Quebec, Canada.

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Champlain Sea

The Champlain Sea was a temporary inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, created by the retreating glaciers during the close of the last ice age.

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Chats Falls

Chats Falls (in French: Chute des Chats, meaning "Cat Falls") were a set of waterfalls on the Ottawa River, near Fitzroy Harbour, Ontario, and Quyon, Quebec, Canada.

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Chaudière Falls

The Chaudière or Kana:tso or Akikodjiwan Falls, are a set of cascades and waterfall in the centre of the Ottawa-Gatineau metropolitan area in Canada where the Ottawa River narrows between a rocky escarpment on both sides of the river.

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Clarence-Rockland

Clarence-Rockland is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell on the Ottawa River.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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Coulonge River

The Coulonge River is a predominantly wilderness river in western Quebec, Canada.

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Coureur des bois

A coureur des bois or coureur de bois ("runner of the woods"; plural: coureurs de bois) was an independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian trader who traveled in New France and the interior of North America.

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Deep River, Ontario

Deep River is a town in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.

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Dozois Reservoir

The Dozois Reservoir (Réservoir Dozois) is a man-made lake in central Quebec, Canada.

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Du Lièvre River

The Le Lièvre River (Rivière du Lièvre in French) is a river in western Quebec which flows south from the Mitchinamécus reservoir and empties into the Ottawa River at Masson-Angers.

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Dumoine River

The Dumoine River is a river in western Quebec with its source in Machin Lake near La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve.

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Eastern Ontario

Eastern Ontario (census population 1,603,625 in 2006) is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario which lies in a wedge-shaped area between the Ottawa River and St. Lawrence River.

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Fassett, Quebec

Fassett is a municipality and village in the Papineau Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada, located on the north shore of the Ottawa River east of Montebello.

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Fort Témiscamingue

Fort Témiscamingue was a trading post from the 17th century in Duhamel-Ouest, Quebec, near Ville-Marie, Canada, located on the fur trade route on the east shore of Lake Timiskaming.

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Fort-Coulonge

Fort Coulonge is a village in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality in western Quebec, Canada.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French River (Ontario)

The French River (Rivière des Français or in Ojibway Wemitigoj-Sibi) is a river in Central Ontario, Canada.

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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Gatineau

Gatineau (locally), officially Ville de Gatineau, is a city in western Quebec, Canada.

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Gatineau River

The Gatineau River (Rivière Gatineau) is a river in western Quebec, Canada, which rises in lakes north of the Baskatong Reservoir and flows south to join the Ottawa River at the city of Gatineau, Quebec.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.

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Grenville, Quebec

Grenville is a village municipality in the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality of the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada.

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Hawkesbury, Ontario

Hawkesbury is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, on the Ottawa River, near the Quebec-Ontario border.

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Head, Clara and Maria

Head, Clara and Maria, officially the United Townships of Head, Clara and Maria, is a municipality and incorporated township in Renfrew County in eastern Ontario, Canada, It is on the Ottawa River and on the northern edge of Algonquin Park.

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Hudson, Quebec

Hudson, Quebec, Canada, is an off-island suburb of Montreal, with a population of 5,135 (2006 Census).

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Hull, Quebec

Hull is the central district and oldest part of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

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Hydro-Québec

Hydro-Québec is a public utility that manages the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Quebec.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

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Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Kipawa River

The Kipawa River (in French: Rivière Kipawa) is a short river in western Quebec, Canada.

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L'Orignal, Ontario

L'Orignal is a village and former municipality, now part of Champlain Township in eastern Ontario, Canada.

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La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality

La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau (The Valley of the Gatineau) is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec, Canada.

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Lac Deschênes

Lac Deschênes is a long lake on the Ottawa River that runs from the Chats Falls Dam near Fitzroy Harbour in the west to the Deschênes Rapids in the east.

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Lac-Moselle, Quebec

Lac-Moselle is an unorganized territory in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada.

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Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain (French: Lac Champlain) (Abenaki: Pitawbagok) (Mohawk: Kaniatarakwà:ronte) is a natural freshwater lake in North America mainly within the borders of the United States (in the states of Vermont and New York) but partially situated across the Canada–U.S. border, in the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Lake Nipissing

Lake Nipissing (lac Nipissing) is a lake in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Lake of Two Mountains

Lake of Two Mountains (French: Lac des Deux Montagnes) is part of the river delta widening of the Ottawa River in Quebec, Canada, at its confluence with the St. Lawrence River.

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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Lake Timiskaming

Lake Timiskaming or Lake Temiskaming (Lac Témiscamingue) is a large freshwater lake on the provincial boundary between Ontario and Quebec, Canada.

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Landslide

The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.

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Last glacial period

The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.

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Laurentian Hills

Laurentian Hills is a municipality in Eastern Ontario, Canada, on the Ottawa River in Renfrew County.

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Laurentian Mountains

The Laurentian Mountains (French: Laurentides) are a mountain range in southern Quebec, Canada, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of at Mont Raoul Blanchard, northeast of Quebec City in the Reserve Faunique des Laurentides.

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Lemieux, Ontario

Lemieux is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario, which was located on the shore of the South Nation River in the Prescott and Russell County township of South Plantagenet.

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List of crossings of the Ottawa River

This is a list of bridges, dams, and ferries on the Ottawa River, proceeding stream upwards from the Saint Lawrence River, with the year in which they were opened.

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List of longest rivers of Canada

Among the longest rivers of Canada are 47 streams of at least.

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List of rivers of Ontario

This is the list of rivers which are situated in and flow through Ontario.

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List of rivers of Quebec

This is a list of rivers of Quebec.

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Madawaska River (Ontario)

The Madawaska River is a river in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin in Ontario, Canada.

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Masson-Angers

Masson-Angers is a former municipality and now a sector within the City of Gatineau, located on the north shore of the Ottawa River, in Quebec, Canada, approximately northeast of downtown Ottawa, Ontario.

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Mattawa River

The Mattawa River is a river in central Ontario, Canada.

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Mattawa, Ontario

Mattawa is a town in northeastern Ontario, Canada on Algonquin Nation land at the confluence of the Mattawa and Ottawa Rivers in Nipissing District.

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McNab/Braeside

McNab/Braeside is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, on the south shore of Chats Lake (part of the Ottawa River), straddling the lower Madawaska River in Renfrew County.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.

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Mississippi River (Ontario)

The Mississippi River is a tributary of the Ottawa River in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Montebello, Quebec

Montebello is a municipality located in the Papineau Regional County Municipality of Western Quebec, Canada.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Montreal River (Timiskaming District)

The Montreal River is a river in Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada.

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Noire River (Ottawa River tributary)

The Noire River (also known as the Black River or "Rivière Noire" in French) is a river in western Quebec, Canada.

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Notre-Dame-du-Nord, Quebec

Notre-Dame-du-Nord is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality.

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Odawa

The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa), said to mean "traders", are an Indigenous American ethnic group who primarily inhabit land in the northern United States and southern Canada.

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Oiseau Bay

Oiseau Bay is an inlet in Canada’s Ottawa Valley, located on the shores of the Ottawa River and set against the backdrop of the Laurentian Mountains.

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Oka, Quebec

Oka is a small village on the northern bank of the Ottawa River (Rivière des Outaouais in French), northwest of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Ontario Power Generation

Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) is a Crown corporation wholly owned by the Government of Ontario.

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Orleans, Ontario

Orleans (French) (officially OrléansThe suburb is called Orléans (with an accent) in French, but is commonly called Orleans (no accent) in English. The official name in English was changed from Orleans to Orléans by the Ontario Geographic Names Board in 1994, but the unaccented form remains common usage.), is a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Ottawa River drainage basin

The Ottawa River drainage basin is the drainage basin in northern North America where surface water empties into the Ottawa River and adjoining waters.

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Ottawa River timber trade

The Ottawa River timber trade, also known as the Ottawa Valley timber trade or Ottawa River lumber trade, was the nineteenth century production of wood products by Canada on areas of the Ottawa River destined for British and American markets.

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Ottawa Valley

The Ottawa Valley is the valley of the Ottawa River, along the boundary between Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.

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Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben

The Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben (also known as the Ottawa Graben) is a seismically active structure that coincides with a wide topographic depression extending from near Montréal through Ottawa.

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Outaouais

Outaouais; (also commonly called The Outaouais) is a region of western Quebec, Canada.

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Outaouais Herald Emeritus

Outaouais Herald of Arms Emeritus (Héraut Outaouais émérite in French) is the title of one of the officers of arms at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa.

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Papineauville, Quebec

Papineauville is a town and municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada.

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Parliament Hill

Parliament Hill (Colline du Parlement), colloquially known as The Hill, is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Pembroke, Ontario

Pembroke (2016 population 13,882; CA population 23,269) is a city in Ontario, Canada at the confluence of the Muskrat River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley.

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Petawawa

Petawawa is a town located in eastern portion of Southern Ontario.

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Petawawa River

The Petawawa River is a river in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin in Nipissing District and Renfrew County in eastern and northeastern Ontario, Canada.

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Pincourt, Quebec

Pincourt is a municipality on the island of Île Perrot, off the western tip of the island of Montreal, Quebec.

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Pinus strobus

Pinus strobus, commonly denominated the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine accessed 12 August 2013 is a large pine native to eastern North America.

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Plaisance, Quebec

Plaisance is a municipality in Papineau Regional County Municipality in western Quebec, Canada.

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Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec

Pointe-des-Cascades is a village municipality in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.

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Portage-du-Fort, Quebec

Portage-du-Fort is a village municipality in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality in the southwest corner of the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada.

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Post-glacial rebound

Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the lifting of the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Quick clay

Quick clay, also known as Leda clay and Champlain Sea clay in Canada, is any of several distinctively sensitive glaciomarine clays found in Canada, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Finland, the United States and other locations around the world.

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Quyon, Quebec

Quyon is a village that is part of Pontiac, Quebec, in the Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality (MRC des Collines).

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Rapides-des-Joachims, Quebec

Rapides-des-Joachims is a municipality and village in western Quebec, Canada, part of Pontiac County in the Outaouais region.

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Rideau Canal

The Rideau Canal, also known unofficially as the Rideau Waterway, connects Canada's capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River at Kingston, Ontario.

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Rideau River

Rapids on the Rideau River opposite Carleton University The Rideau River (Rivière Rideau), (Anishinàbemowin name: Pasapkedjinawong) is a river in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Rift valley

A rift valley is a linear-shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault.

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Rigaud, Quebec

Rigaud is a municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada in the county of Vaudreuil-Soulanges in Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent region.

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River

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.

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Rivière des Mille Îles

The Rivière des Mille Îles ("River of the Thousand Islands") is a channel of the Ottawa River in southwestern Quebec, Canada and runs into the Rivière des Prairies.

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Rivière des Prairies

The Rivière des Prairies (literally River of the Prairies, sometimes called the Back River in English) is a delta channel of the Ottawa River in southwestern Quebec, Canada.

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Rivière du Nord (Laurentides)

Rivière du Nord is a -long river in the Laurentides region that flows into the Ottawa River.

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Rouge River (Quebec)

The Rouge River (red river) is a river in western Quebec, Canada, which empties into the Ottawa River near Pointe-au-Chêne and flows north of Mont Tremblant.

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Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity

Run-of-river hydroelectricity (ROR) or run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric generation plant whereby little or no water storage is provided.

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Saint Lawrence River

The Saint Lawrence River (Fleuve Saint-Laurent; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning "big waterway") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America.

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Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec

Saint-André-d'Argenteuil is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality.

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Saint-Placide, Quebec

Saint-Placide is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Deux-Montagnes Regional County Municipality, along the north shore of the Ottawa River.

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Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain (born Samuel Champlain; on or before August 13, 1574Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date or his place of birth. – December 25, 1635), known as "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.

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Sheenboro

Sheenboro is a village and municipality in the Outaouais region, part of the Pontiac Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.

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South Nation River

The South Nation River is a river in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Southern Ontario

Southern Ontario is a primary region of the province of Ontario, Canada, the other primary region being Northern Ontario.

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Témiscaming

Témiscaming is a town located at the south end of Lac Témiscamingue on the upper Ottawa River in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality of western Quebec, Canada.

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Temiskaming Shores

Temiskaming Shores is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.

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The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site

The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site (Lieu historique national de la Commerce-de-la-Fourrure-à-Lachine) is a historic building located in the borough of Lachine in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the western end of the Lachine Canal.

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Thorne, Ontario

Thorne is an unincorporated community within the unincorporated township of Poitras, in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Thurso, Quebec

Thurso is a city in Papineau Regional County Municipality in the Outaouais region of western Quebec.

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Timber rafting

Timber rafting is a log transportation method in which logs are tied together into rafts and drifted or pulled across a water body or down a river.

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Vaudreuil-Dorion

Vaudreuil-Dorion is a suburb of Greater Montreal, in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec.

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Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, Quebec

Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac is a village municipality in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.

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Ville-Marie, Quebec

Ville-Marie is a town on Lake Temiscaming in western Quebec, Canada.

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Voyageurs

The voyageurs (travelers) were French Canadians who engaged in the transporting of furs by canoe during the fur trade years.

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Waltham, Quebec

Waltham is a village and municipality in the Outaouais region, Quebec, Canada, part of the Pontiac Regional County Municipality.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.

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Westmeath Provincial Park

Westmeath Provincial Park is a provincial park on the Ottawa River in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.

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Whitewater Region

Whitewater Region is a township located within the scenic Ottawa Valley, in eastern Ontario, Canada on the Ottawa River in Renfrew County.

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Redirects here:

Kichesippi, Kitcisipi, Kitcisìpi, Ottawa River (Canada), Rio Ottawa, River Ottawa, Riviere des Outaouais, Rivière des Outaouais, Río Ottawa.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_River

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