Pigeon River
The Pigeon River forms part of the Canada–United States border between the state of Minnesota and the province of Ontario, west of Lake Superior. In pre-industrial times, the river was a waterway of great importance for transportation and the fur trade.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rufus Sarsaparilla, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: watercourse in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Dove River”, “Omimi-zibi”, and “River aux Groseilles”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grand Portage State Park.
Grand Portage State Park
Nature reserve
Photo: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Portage State Park is a state park at the northeastern tip of the U.S. state of Minnesota, on the Canada–United States border. It contains a 120-foot waterfall, the tallest in the state, on the Pigeon River. Grand Portage State Park is situated 1½ miles west of Pigeon River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand Portage.
Grand Portage
Photo: Xerxes2004, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Portage is an Indian Reservation in the far northeast corner of Minnesota, on the shore of Lake Superior and the border of Ontario, Canada.
Pigeon River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Cook, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Pigeon River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Pigeon”
- Catalan: “Pigeon”
- Cebuano: “Pigeon River”
- French: “rivière Pigeon”
- French: “Rivière Pigeon”
- German: “Pigeon River”
- Hebrew: “נהר פיג’ן”
- Irish: “Abhainn Pigeon”
- Japanese: “ピジョン川”
- Venetian: “Pigeon”
- Welsh: “Afon Pigeon”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pigeon River”. Photo: Rufus Sarsaparilla, Public domain.