The Cedar River is a river

River

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 in the Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay , sometimes called Hudson's Bay, is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada. It drains a very large area, about , that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, southeastern Nunavut, as well as parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota,...

 drainage basin

Drainage basin

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 in the Unorganized Part of Kenora District in northwestern

Northwestern Ontario

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 Ontario

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, Canada

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. The river is a left tributary of the English River

English River (Ontario)

The English River flows through Lac Seul to join the Winnipeg River. The river is 615 km in length. There are several hydroelectric plants on this river.Tributaries of this river include the Vermilion River and the Wabigoon River...

.

Course

The river begins at the outflow from Cedar Lake

Cedar Lake (Kenora District)

Cedar Lake is lake in the Nelson River/Hudson Bay drainage basins in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada.The lake is irregularly-shaped with several large arms. It extends about east-west and north-south. The primary inflow is an unnamed tributary at the south from Double...

 and flows north to through Church Lake to Perrault Lake where it takes in the right tributary Ord River. It flows out at the north end of the lake under Ontario Highway 105 and over the Perrault Falls at the unincorporated place of Perrault Falls, passes through Wabaskang Lake, takes in the left tributary Anishinabi River and reaches its mouth at the English River, just south of where Ontario Highway 804 crosses that river and about 6 kilometres (4 mi) upstream of the Ontario Power Generation

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 Manitou Falls Generating Station. The Cedar River flows via the Winnipeg River

Winnipeg River

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 and the Nelson River

Nelson River

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to Hudson Bay.

Tributaries

• Sherin Creek (right)
• Anishinabi River (left)
• Wabaskang Lake
  • Aerobus Creek (left)
  • Florence Creek (right)
• Ord River (right)