[1] The Roaring River drains the north side of the Duck Mountain Provincial Park of Manitoba.

[2] A site along the river has been analyzed for pollen records of the Middle Pleistocene, c. 781 to 126 thousand years ago.

[1] A gauge near Minitonas records highly variable flows from one year to another, averaging about 66,000 cubic metres (2,300,000 cu ft).

[5] Settlement of the region began in 1899 with the completion of the Canadian National Railway to Swan River.

The Roaring River Suffrage Association was founded in March 1912, with both men and women as members.