![]() ![]() The basin covers parts of Ontario and Quebec in Canada, parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, and nearly the entirety of the state of Michigan in the United States. Its drainage area, which includes the Great Lakes, the world's largest system of freshwater lakes, is 1,344,200 square kilometres (518,998.5 sq mi), of which 839,200 km 2 (324,016.9 sq mi) is in Canada and 505,000 km 2 (194,981.6 sq mi) is in the United States. The farthest headwater is the North River in the Mesabi Range at Hibbing, Minnesota. These numbers include the estuary without the estuary, the length from Lake Ontario is c. Lawrence River runs 3,058 kilometres (1,900 mi) from the farthest headwater to the mouth and 1,197 km (743.8 mi) from the outflow of Lake Ontario. The river becomes tidal around Quebec City. The estuary begins at the eastern tip of Île d'Orléans, just downstream from Quebec City. Lawrence, one of the largest estuaries in the world. Lawrence River begins at the outflow of Lake Ontario and flows adjacent to Gananoque, Brockville, Morristown, Ogdensburg, Massena, Cornwall, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, and Quebec City before draining into the Gulf of St. ![]() Lawrence River, near Lake Ontario, is home to the Thousand Islands. The Champlain Sea lasted from about 13,000 years ago to about 10,000 years ago and was continuously shrinking during that time, a process that continues today. With the draining of the Champlain Sea, due to a rebounding continent from the Last Glacial Maximum, the St. Lawrence River in 2020 Cross commemorating the one laid by Jacques-Cartier on October 7, 1535, Trois-Rivières The Champlain Sea Geography Boats of the Transat Québec–Saint-Malo on the St. Innu-aimun, the language of Nitassinan, refers to it as Wepistukujaw Sipo/ Wepìstùkwiyaht sīpu the Abenaki call it Moliantegok/ Moliantekw ("Montréal River"), Kchitegw/ Ktsitekw/ Gicitegw ("Great River"), or Oss8genaizibo/ Ws8genaisibo/ Wsogenaisibo ("River of the Algonquins") the Mohawk refer to it in Kanienʼkéha as Roiatatokenti, Raoteniateara, Ken’tarókwen, or Kaniatarowanénhne the Tuscarora call it Kahnawáˀkye or Kaniatarowanenneh ("Big Water Current") the Algonquins (or Omàmiwininiwak) call it "the Walking Path" or Magtogoek or Kitcikanii sipi, the "Large Water River" the Huron-Wendats refer to it as Lada8anna or Laooendaooena and, the Atikamekw of Nitaskinan refer to it as Micta sipi ("Huge River"). Today, the river is still known by Indigenous nations by a number of distinct names. The name Saint-Laurent (Saint Lawrence) was originally applied to the eponymous bay by Jacques Cartier upon his arrival into the region on the 10th of August feast day for Saint Lawrence in 1535. In contemporary French, the name is rendered as the fleuve Saint-Laurent. The river's present name has been used since 1604 when it was recorded on a map by Samuel de Champlain Champlain opted for the names Grande riviere de sainct Laurens and Fleuve sainct Laurens in his writings, supplanting the earlier names. Beginning in the 16th century, French explorers visited what is now Canada and gave the river names such as the Grand fleuve de Hochelaga and the Grande rivière du Canada, where fleuve and rivière are two French words ( fleuve being a river that flows into the sea). The river has been called a variety of names by local First Nations. It also provides the foundation for the commercial St. ![]() state of New York, and demarcates part of the international boundary between Canada and the United States. The river traverses the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as the U.S. Lawrence, connecting the North American Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean, and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a roughly northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence River ( French: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. ![]()
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