The Current River is a river in the City of Thunder Bay and Unorganized Thunder Bay District in Thunder Bay District , Northwestern Ontario , Canada. The river is in the Great Lakes Basin and is a tributary of Lake Superior . The river's name comes from the French " Rivière aux courants ", referring to the river's currents.
7-666: Current River may refer to: Canada Current River (Ontario) , a tributary of Lake Superior in Thunder Bay Current River, Thunder Bay, Ontario , a neighborhood United States Current River (Ozarks) , a tributary of the Black River in Missouri Current River State Park , Shannon County, Missouri Current River Township, Ripley County, Missouri [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
14-501: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Current River (Ontario) The Current River begins at Current Lake in Unorganized Thunder Bay District and flows northwest, then turns southeast, passing out of Ray Lake over a dam, then under Ontario Highway 527 and reaches Onion Lake. It continues southwest, passes into geographic Gorham Township, flows past
21-524: The community of Stepstone, and turns southeast before entering the City of Thunder Bay. It takes in the left tributary North Current River, turns south, passes under Ontario Highway 17 , then flows through Boulevard Lake and over Boulevard Lake Dam, and flows into Thunder Bay on Lake Superior. The river's name is the English version of the name given it by early French explorers: "Rivière aux courants", referring to
28-665: The river's currents. In 1859 Lindsay Russell, Surveyor-General for Canada, followed the river from its mouth in Lake Superior towards its source, reporting that: Two other sizable rivers and a creek — the Neebing River, the McIntyre River and McVicar's Creek — run between Current River and the Kaministiquia River to the south, but in 1858 neither of these two rivers were of sufficient interest to be identified by name. From
35-501: The river's mouth in 1865. About 1867 brothers Peter, John and Donald McKellar discovered silver deposits near the river, and their Thunder Bay Silver Mining Co. operated near its mouth from 1866 to 1870, when fire destroyed the buildings. The Duncan-Shuniah Mine also operated in this area from 1867 to 1881. An 1875 editorial in Prince Arthur Landing's satirical newspaper Thunderbolt mentions (facetiously) factories and mills on
42-430: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Current_River&oldid=904841523 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
49-759: The vantage point of Fort William, the Neebing River was referred to as "First River" and the McIntyre continued for some time to be known as "Second River." Sometimes, from the vantage point of Prince Arthur's Landing, the names were reversed, the McIntyre being the First River and the Neebing River the Second River. Early references to development along the Current River include mention of John McKenzie's acquisition of land along it in 1857, and William Petit Trowbridge's 400 acre (162 hectare) purchase of patented mineral lands at
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