English_River_(Ontario)
English River (Ontario)
River in Ontario, Canada
The English River is a river in Kenora District and Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.[3] It flows through Lac Seul to join the Winnipeg River at Tetu Lake as a right tributary.[4] The river is in the Hudson Bay drainage basin, is 615 kilometres (382 mi) long and has a drainage basin of 52,300 square kilometres (20,200 sq mi).[2] Although there are several hydroelectric plants on this river, the English River upstream of Minnitaki Lake is notable as one of the few large river systems in northwestern Ontario with a natural flow and without any upstream source of pollution.[5] It is the fourth longest river entirely in Ontario.[citation needed]
There is also a settlement on the river called English River,[6] located where Highway 17 crosses the river at its confluence with the Scotch River, along with a nearby railway point of the same name, constructed as part of the Canadian Pacific Railway transcontinental main line.[7]
2 non-contiguous segments of the river are protected in 2 separate provincial parks: the East English River Provincial Park and West English River Provincial Park.