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Deer River
Deer River (Manitoba) is located in Manitoba
Deer River (Manitoba)
Location of the mouth of the river in Manitoba
Country Canada
Province Manitoba
Region Northern
Census division 23
Physical characteristics
Main source Unnamed lake
226 m (741 ft)
57°35′00″N 95°14′24″W / 57.58344429612829°N 95.24001072099297°W / 57.58344429612829; -95.24001072099297
River mouth Dog River
25 m (82 ft)
58°22′40″N 94°13′02″W / 58.37778°N 94.21722°W / 58.37778; -94.21722
Basin features
River system Hudson Bay drainage basin

The Deer River is a river in Census division 23 in Northern Manitoba, Canada. It is in the Hudson Bay drainage basin and is a right tributary of the Dog River.

Course

The Deer River begins at an unnamed lake, just 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of the Churchill River and flows east, through the Deer Lakes, and continues east, reaching a maximum separation with the Churchill River of about 70 kilometres (43 mi). It then turns north, and is roughly paralleled for the rest of its course by the Hudson Bay Railway; it passes closest to the railway points on the line (each with a flag stop railway station) of M'Clintock, Chesnaye and Lamprey. The river reaches its mouth at the Dog River, just upstream of that river's mouth at the Churchill River. The Churchill River flows to Hudson Bay.

Tributaries

  • Lost Moose Creek (right)
  • Clifford Smith Creek (left)
  • Robert Thomson Creek (left)
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