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Share by EmailGrand Lake, 534 km2, elevation 85 m, max length 100 km, up to 300 m deep, largest lake on the Island of Newfoundland, is located on the west side of the Island, 24 km southeast of CORNER BROOK. Fed by numerous small streams and brooks, it drains into Deer Lake via the 11-km Newfoundland Canal, and then via the HUMBER RIVER and Humber Arm, into the Bay of Islands. The canal is part of the Deer Lake hydroelectric project, built in the 1920s to provide power for a pulp and paper mill at Corner Brook. Part of the project is a dam that controls the level of Grand Lake. The lake contains the uninhabited Glover Island (178 km2). Together with its feeder lakes, Sandy and Birchy, Grand Lake forms a waterway much used by canoeists.
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- MLA 8TH EDITION
- Evans, David. "Grand Lake". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 23 January 2014, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/grand-lake. Accessed 17 June 2019.
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- Evans, D., Grand Lake (2014). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/grand-lake
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- Evans, David, "Grand Lake". In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published February 07, 2006; Last Edited January 23, 2014. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/grand-lake
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- Evans, David. The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Grand Lake", Last Edited January 23, 2014, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/grand-lake
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Grand Lake
| Article by | David Evans |
| Published Online | February 7, 2006 |
| Last Edited | January 23, 2014 |
Grand Lake, 534 km2, elevation 85 m, max length 100 km, up to 300 m deep, largest lake on the Island of Newfoundland, is located on the west side of the Island, 24 km southeast of CORNER BROOK.
