Elzevir Creek is a creek

Stream

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 in the Moira River

Moira River

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 and Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario

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 drainage basins

Drainage basin

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 in Tweed

Tweed, Ontario

Tweed is a municipality and a village located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Hastings County.The Municipality of Tweed is an amalgamated municipality comprising the former Village of Tweed and the former Townships of Hungerford and Elzevir & Grimsthorpe...

, Hastings County

Hastings County, Ontario

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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Course

Elzevir Creek begins at an unnamed lake, about 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of the community of Flinton

Flinton, Ontario

Flinton is a small, unincorporated village in the township of Addington Highlands in Ontario, Canada. Presently about 250 people call it their home. Billa Flint was the founder of Flinton. The Skootamatta River falls were used to power the many mills....

, at an elevation of 257 metres (843 ft). It flows southeast into Elzevir Lake

Elzevir Lake

Elzevir Lake is a lake in the Moira River and Lake Ontario drainage basins in Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.The lake is about long and wide and lies at an elevation of about west of the community of Flinton. The primary inflow is Elzevir Creek from an unnamed lake at the northwest; it...

, then follows a circuitous route to reach its mouth at the Skootamatta River

Skootamatta River

The Skootamatta River is a river in the Lake Ontario drainage basin in Hastings and Lennox and Addington Counties in Ontario, Canada. It flows from Joeperry Lake to join the Moira River in Tweed...

, just north of Highway 7

Highway 7 (Ontario)

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, at the community of Actinolite

Actinolite, Ontario

Actinolite is a community on the Skootamatta River in eastern Ontario. It is in the Municipality of Tweed, in Hastings County, on Highway 37 just south of Highway 7 and north of Tweed....

 and at an elevation of 174 metres (571 ft). The Skootamatta River flows via the Moira River

Moira River

The Moira River is a river in Hastings County in eastern Ontario, Canada. It travels from its source in the centre of the county to the county seat Belleville and is named after Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira.-Course:...

 into the Bay of Quinte

Bay of Quinte

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 on Lake Ontario at Belleville

Belleville, Ontario

Belleville is a city located at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte in Southern Ontario, Canada, in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. It is the seat of Hastings County, but is politically independent of it. and the centre of the Bay of Quinte Region...

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