Moira River

The Moira River is a river in Hastings County in eastern Ontario, Canada. It travels from its source in the centre of the county to the county seat Belleville to the Bay of Quinte. Initially named the Sagonaska River by the indigenous people groups of the territory, the waterway was renamed in 1807 by the British pioneer government after Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira. Rawdon-Hastings battled in the American Revolutionary War and had a political profession in England, yet has no association with the site. The name Sagonaska keeps on being utilized in the Belleville territory, as the name of a scaffold over the Moira, and the name of a government funded school.

While the Moira stream itself is altogether inside Hastings County, the watershed incorporates parts of the following two provinces toward the east, Lennox and Addington and Frontenac. Tributaries of the Clare River stretch out into the township of Central Frontenac in Frontenac County. The Clare River additionally is in the townships of Stone Mills and Addington Highlands in Lennox and Addington County. The Skootamatta River and tributitaries move through Addington Highlands also. The tributaries additionally expand encourage north in Hastings County than the Moira itself.