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| | CANADIAN RIVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | In Oklahoma generally called the "South" Canadian River, the Canadian was known to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish explorers as the Rio Buenaventura and the Magdalena. |
 | | The Canadian is a braided meandering stream fed by the North Canadian, Little, and Deep Fork rivers and by numerous creeks. |
 | | Various economic activities in the valley of the Canadian have included: in the west, farming and ranching; in the central, ranching, farming, manufacturing, and wholesale/retail operations; and in the east, ranching, farming, mining, and lumbering. |
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