List of rivers and water bodies of Montreal Island

After the Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago, Montreal and the Saint Lawrence Lowlands were flooded by the Champlain Sea. Within a few centuries, as and when these waters receded, Mount Royal and its three summits emerged into islands. With the complete withdrawal of the sea, water was retained in some depression of the island. This was the case amongst others of Beaver Lake, located in the palm of Mount Royal. This gradually dried up to become a fen.[https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/science-et-technologie/408486/le-lac-aux-castors-habite-par-le-rongeur-il-y-a-11-000-ans Article of "journal Le Devoir" - Beaver Lake (Lac aux Castors) on Mount Royal] It was artificially dredged (excavated) in 1938.

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There used to be a complex hydrographic, which is now destroyed or channeled.{{Cite web |url=http://rivieresperdues.radio-canada.ca/fr/villes/montreal#river4 |title=Radio-Canada |access-date=2016-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429191603/http://rivieresperdues.radio-canada.ca/fr/villes/montreal#river4 |archive-date=2014-04-29 |url-status=dead }}[https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/home/mapping-ecological-indigenous-heritage sites.google.com Carte des sites de l'héritage autochtone]

• {{Interlanguage link|Otter Lake, Montreal|lt=Otter Lake|fr|Lac à la Loutre|WD=}} (or small lake St. Peter): about four (4) kilometres long by about one (1) kilometre wide, a marshy lake that was halfway between Old Montreal and Lachine, south of Quartier Latin, the {{ill|Saint-Jacques escarpment|fr|Falaise Saint-Jacques}}, and west of the Turcot Interchange. It was backfilled and gradually dried up, particularly with the construction of the Lachine Canal and the sector's industrialization. Today Highway 20 runs through the length and breadth in the center.{{Cite web |url=http://rivieresperdues.radio-canada.ca/fr/villes/montreal/histoire/13 |title=Radio-Canada, emission "Rivières perdues". |access-date=2016-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425195421/http://rivieresperdues.radio-canada.ca/fr/villes/montreal/histoire/13 |archive-date=2017-04-25 |url-status=dead }}
• Saint Pierre River: started in Côte-des-Neiges down to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and widened forming Lake Otter. It then narrowed back to a river and lead to the St. Lawrence River in Nuns' Island.
• Little St. Pierre River: created artificially in 1697 under the name of "St. Gabriel Canal". This channel connected the Saint-Pierre River (in the east part of Lake Otter) up to the Pointe-à-Callière Museum. One part was channelled as qu'égout (William collector) in 1832. The Pointe-à-Callière Museum would make the public place around 2017.[http://pacmusee.qc.ca/fr/ a-propos de Pointe-à-Callière museum/museum/future-expansion-museum-projects Article "À propos du musée de Pointe-à-Callière"]
• Saint Martin River or Little River: It begins at Mount Royal Cemetery through Outremont, Quebec and the Mile End district and the Plateau Mont-Royal district until La Fontaine Park (including the pond is a remnant). Then it branched off westward through the Quartier Latin district and ran along the {{ill|Montreal fortifications|fr|Fortifications de Montréal}} to the river. There are still some traces of the river.[http://gaiapresse.ca/nouvelles/des-rivieres-perdues-un-ruisseau-meconnu-36348.html Article "Des rivières perdues - un ruisseau méconnu"]

Today there are only a handful of streams and lakes in nature. However, many parks have ponds or artificial lakes of large size.

Below is a partial list of current waters bodies of the island:

• Rivière à l'Orme
• Bertrand Brook
• Saint-Pierre River (Montreal)
• Lachine Canal
• Aqueduct Canal
• St. Lawrence River
• Prairie River (Montreal)

{{Reflist}}

• Blue Network of Montreal
• List of rivers of Quebec
• List of canals of Quebec

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