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The '''Sydenham River''' is a river in southwestern [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]. This river flows southwest from its source west of [[London, Ontario]] and empties into [[Lake Saint Clair]]. The length of the river is 100 kilometres and it drains a watershed of approximately 2700 square kilometres.

Because this river flows through a large agricultural area, its waters collect silt and fertilizer runoff. In spite of this, the river provides habitat for 80 fish species and 34 species of freshwater [[mussel]]s; these include five mussel species considered as "endangered" nationally and two fish species and one turtle species,the eastern spiny softshell turtle, considered to be "threatened".

The river was named after [[Lord Sydenham]], governor of Canada from [[1839]] to [[1841]].