Sturgeon River (Lake Nipissing)

{{Other places3|Sturgeon River (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox river

| name = Sturgeon River

| name_native =

| name_native_lang =

| name_other =

| image = Sturgeon Falls Ontario.JPG

| image_size =

| image_caption = Sturgeon Falls

| image_alt =

| map =

| map_size =

| map_caption =

| map_alt =

| pushpin_map = Ontario

| pushpin_map_size =

| pushpin_map_caption=

| pushpin_map_alt =

| subdivision_type1 =

| subdivision_name1 = Canada

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = Ontario

| subdivision_type3 = Districts

| subdivision_name3 = Timiskaming, Sudbury, Nipissing

| length = {{Convert|140|mi|km|abbr=on|order=flip}}{{cite book |title=Annual Report Volume X |date=1899 |publisher=Geological Survey of Canada |location=Ottawa |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54EOAQAAIAAJ |access-date=3 October 2021 |language=en}}

| width_min =

| width_avg =

| width_max =

| depth_min =

| depth_avg =

| depth_max =

| discharge1_location= Sturgeon Falls

| discharge1_min =

| discharge1_avg = {{convert|89.53|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}

| discharge1_max =

| source1 = approx. {{Convert|22|km|abbr=on}} south of Gowganda

| source1_location = Unorg. West Timiskaming

| source1_coordinates= {{Coord|47|27|08|N|80|47|30|W|region:CA-ON_type:waterbody_source:Toporama|display=inline}}

| source1_elevation =

| mouth = Lake Nipissing

| mouth_location = Sturgeon Falls

| mouth_coordinates = {{Coord|46|19|02|N|79|58|04|W|region:CA-ON_type:waterbody_source:CGNDB|display=inline,title}}

| mouth_elevation = {{convert|195|m|abbr=on}}

| progression =

| basin_size = {{Convert|6889.4|km2|abbr=on}}{{cite web |title=Sturgeon River / Lake Nipissing / French River Water Management Plan |url=https://lnsbr.nipissingu.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Acres.1992.Sturgeon-River-Lakje-Nipissing-French-River-Water-Management-Plan.pdf |publisher=Ministry of Natural Resources Ontario |access-date=30 September 2021 |date=March 1992}}

| basin_landmarks =

| basin_population =

| tributaries_left =

| tributaries_right =

| waterbodies =

| waterfalls =

}}

The Sturgeon River is a river that springs near Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park in the Timiskaming District in Ontario, Canada.{{cite cgndb|{{#property:P821}}|Rivière Désert}} It flows {{convert|140|mi|km|order=flip}} in a mostly south-easterly direction through Sudbury and Nipissing Districts before it empties into Lake Nipissing on the north shore. The town of Sturgeon Falls is located on the river about {{Convert|3|km}} north of its mouth.

The river is provincially significant recreational river{{cite web |title=Policy Report P173e: STURGEON RIVER PROVINCIAL PARK (WATERWAY CLASS) |url=https://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/services/CLUPA/xmlReader.aspx?xsl=web-primary.xsl&type=primary&POLICY_IDENT=P173e |publisher=Ministry of Natural Resources Ontario |access-date=30 September 2021 |work=Crown Land Use Policy Atlas |date=1 December 2012}} with some 65 sets of rapids, mostly rated CI and CII that can be run all season.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Hap |title=Temagami canoe routes |date=1988 |publisher=The Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association |location=Merrickville, Ontario |isbn=0969325819 |edition=Rev. and updated}}

Ontario Power Generation operates a hydroelectric plant on the river at Crystal Falls. From 1848 to 1879, the Hudson's Bay Company operated a fur trading post called Sturgeon River House at the mouth of this river (now turned into a local museum).{{cite web |title=Sturgeon River House Museum |url=https://routechamplain.ca/en/listings/sturgeon-river-house-museum/ |website=routechamplain.ca |publisher=Route Champlain |access-date=1 October 2021}} Up until the middle of the 20th century, the river was used to transport logs to sawmills on Lake Nipissing. The lower part of the river is prone to flooding. In 1979 the area around the community of Field experienced a disastrous flood that prompted all residential homes to be relocated.

The upper (northerly) part of the Sturgeon River is protected in the Sturgeon River Provincial Park. This park consists of {{convert|79.85|km2|sqmi}} of protected wilderness stretched out along the river banks without any visitors facilities present. It is managed by Ontario Parks.{{cite web |title=Sturgeon River |url=https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/sturgeonriver |website=www.ontarioparks.com |publisher=Ontario Parks |access-date=30 September 2021}}