Pelican Lake (Kenora District)

The Pelican Lake is a lake in Kenora District in southwestern Ontario, Canada.

The lake is part of a traversed by the English River chain of lakes, to which in addition to the Pelican Lake or the nearby lakes upstream from Minnitaki Lake Abram and Lake count. The catchment area of ​​Pelican Lake covers more than 14,000 km ².

About the Frog Rapids Narrows Pelican Lake is fed by the southern Abram Lake. The Ontario Highway 72 crosses the river at this point the course of the English River. Another tributary is the 6 km long drainage of the westerly Big Vermilion Lake. On the eastern shore of Pelican Lake, the center of Sioux Lookout is located. The Railway Bridge of the transcontinental main line of the Canadian National Railway crosses the lake north of Sioux Lookout. The railway maintenance Pelican is located along the northwestern Seeteils. About the Pelican If the lake water drains to the northern Lost Lake.

In Minnitaki - Abram - Pelican - Botsford Lakes system, the following fish species are caught: Walleye, Canadian walleye, trout and smallmouth bass, northern pike, muskellunge, American perch, sunfish, lake trout and American Heringsmaräne. The catch of lake sturgeon is prohibited all year round.