Heathcote Lake is a lake in Thunder Bay District

Thunder Bay District, Ontario

Thunder Bay District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district seat is Thunder Bay....

, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. The lake lies in Wabakimi Provincial Park

Wabakimi Provincial Park

Wabakimi Provincial Park is a wilderness park located to the northwest of Lake Nipigon in the province of Ontario, Canada. The park contains a vast and interconnected network of more than 2,000 kilometres of lakes and rivers...

, and is part of the Flindt River system, in the Albany River

Albany River

The Albany River is a river in Northern Ontario, Canada, which flows northeast from Lake St. Joseph in Northwestern Ontario and empties into James Bay. It is long to the head of the Cat River, tying it with the Severn River for the title of longest river in Ontario...

 drainage basin

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

. The Flindt River is one of the lake's main inflows (50.228056°N 90.466944°W). Other inflows include Manion Creek ( 50.218889°N 90.448056°W). The outflow of the lake is a narrows to Heafur Lake (50.316667°N 90.309167°W).

The Canadian National Railway

Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad"....

 transcontinental mainline crosses the lake on an embankment at Flindt Landing

Flindt Landing, Ontario

Flindt Landing is an unincorporated place and railway point in Unorganized Thunder Bay District in northwestern Ontario, Canada.It is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line, between Savant Lake to the west and Harvey to the east, where the line crosses an embankment over...

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