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Topic: Cedar Lake Manitoba


  
  Lake Winnipeg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lake Winnipeg is a very large (24,400 km²) lake in central North America, in the province of Manitoba, Canada, about 55 km north of the city of Winnipeg.
Manitoba Hydro uses the lake as one of the largest reservoirs in the world.
Lakes Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Winnipegosis are found at the floor of the prehistoric Glacial Lake Agassiz.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Winnipeg   (693 words)

  
 Manitoba - MSN Encarta
Manitoba is the easternmost of Canada’s three Prairie provinces, the others being Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Most of Manitoba’s mineral wealth is found within the shield, which is underlain by hard crystalline rocks that are among the oldest in the world.
At the edge of the shield in northeastern Manitoba is a narrow zone that is part of the region called the Hudson Bay Lowlands.
ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559392/Manitoba.html   (823 words)

  
 Manitoba Advanced Education and Training
Lakes east of Lake Winnipeg are moderately sensitive to the effects of acid precipitation.
Harvests of walleye and sauger on lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba are declining.
Manitoba has implemented a "native species priority" regarding fish stocking and is lobbying for a tougher national protocol to prevent introductions of exotic species.
www.gov.mb.ca /conservation/annual-report/soe-reports/soe97/soe97_3.html   (17562 words)

  
 Cedar Lake
The lake draws most of its waters from the huge SASKATCHEWAN RIVER drainage basin.
Construction of an earthfill dam and 25.6 km of dikes in 1961-64 caused lake levels to rise 3.65 m, and assured a mean annual flow of 688 m
The population was relocated to Easterville at the southeast corner of the lake.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001471   (98 words)

  
 Saskatchewan River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the northern edge of the marshes it flows east, twisting between a series of small lakes into west central Manitoba to The Pas, where it is joined from the southwest by the Carrot River.
Southeast of The Pas, it forms several streams in a delta on the northwest side of Cedar Lake, then exiting the lake on its southeast end and flowing approximately 5 km (3 mi) to Lake Winnipeg, entering on the northwest shore north of Long Point.
Hydroelectric power plants are built on the river at Nipawin, and E.B. Campbell (formerly Squaw Rapids) in Saskatchewan and at Grand Rapids in Manitoba.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saskatchewan_River   (391 words)

  
 Cedar Lake Lodge  -  Cedar Lake, Ontario
Located on a 100 acre island on picturesque Cedar Lake, the lodge and cabins are nestled among the trees overlooking the lake.
Cedar Lake Lodge has long been know as a top canadian fishing lodge and is the perfect place to get away.
We, at Cedar Lake Lodge, are dedicated to providing quality service with the additional "personal touch" to make your next Canada fishing vacation relaxing and worry free.
www.internetsportshow.com /searchit/cedarlakelodge.htm   (479 words)

  
 VDGIF > Wildlife > Tundra Swan Trax
Cedar Lake is located in west-central Manitoba just west of Lake Winnipeg.
The Great Lakes is the first major staging area for swans after leaving their wintering quarters.
She is located about 100 miles west of the Hudson Bay coast and 120 miles north of the Manitoba border, in the Province of Nunavut.
www.dgif.state.va.us /wildlife/swan/archive-2003/893.html   (1441 words)

  
 Past lives: Chronicles of Canadian Paleontology - Cedar Lake amber
This lake acts as a giant settling pond where lumps of amber, coal fragments and shells accumulate at the mouth of the river.
Among the specialists describing the Cedar Lake insects and arachnids was Professor Alfred Kinsey of Indiana University who focussed on the taxonomy of living and fossil gall wasps before he began working exclusively on human sexuality which culminated in publication of Sexual Behavior of the Human Male and Female in 1948 and 1953.
The gall wasp from Cedar Lake amber proved to be the oldest and most primitive member of the gall wasp family Cynipidae.
gsc.nrcan.gc.ca /paleochron/33_e.php   (471 words)

  
 VDGIF > Wildlife > Tundra Swan Trax
She is moving between the National Wildlife Refuges around Pungo Lake, Lake Mattamuskeet, and the Sounds of eastern North Carolina.
She is probably scouting out the general area looking for food in preparation for the last leg of her migration back to the East Coast.
She appears to be slowly making her way across the prairie region stopping to rest and feed on the plentiful marshes that dot the landscape.
www.dgif.state.va.us /wildlife/swan/893.html   (1844 words)

  
 National Parks - Manitoba
The landscape is a patchwork of shallow lakes, hills, wet meadows, and mixed forests, characteristic of the prairie pothole countryside.
Manitoba's First Nation protected areas MOU is also explicit about the required steps for decisions to establish new protected areas.
The Manitoba Lowlands national park is identified as being among the top ten national parks to be established in Canada.
manitobawildlands.org /pa_ntl_prks.htm   (1275 words)

  
 This Province is available to be hosted Manitoba
Manitoba, one of the Prairie provinces of Canada, in the central part of the country, bounded on the North by the Northwest Territories, on the NE by the Hudson Bay, on the East by Ontario, on the South by the states of Minnesota and North Dakota, and on the West by Saskatchewan.
Manitoba entered the Canadian confederation on July 15, 1870, as the fifth province.
The name Manitoba is taken from Lake Manitoba, which is an Indian word meaning, "great spirit's strait." It is called the Keystone Province.
www.ahgp.org /canorphan/manitoba.htm   (182 words)

  
 OC Online - Hot Spots 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The lake bottom is clean shale and pea gravel rather than soft muck, which makes it ideal for wading.
Cedar Lake is a well-kept secret: a huge, road-accessible shallow lake in central Manitoba with lots of forage fish, almost no fishing pressure and a significant number of 30-pound-plus northerns.
With its flat, featureless bottom and endless marshy shorelines, Cedar is ideal for trolling weedless spoons with a single hook and twister tail.
www.outdoorcanada.ca /fish/hot_spots05h.shtml   (417 words)

  
 Manitoba Lake - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Manitoba Lake - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Manitoba, Lake irregularly shaped inland stretch of water, southern Manitoba, central Canada, 72 km (45 mi) northwest of Winnipeg.
Manitoba is lower in elevation than areas to the east, west, and south, and serves as a drainage basin for several major rivers.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Manitoba_Lake.html   (112 words)

  
 BFRO Report 1280: Huge human-like footprints discovered
We planned our expedition to the area because there is an amber deposit located on Cedar Lake that is 75 million years old, and we wanted to collect dinosaur age amber.
The lake was created in the 1960's, Manitoba hydro flooded the forest to create a hydro dam.
The water level in the lake was at its highest level for the dams licence (data supplied from manitoba hydro = 841.59 ft above sealevel).
www.bfro.net /GDB/show_report.asp?id=1280   (662 words)

  
 RED LAKE F ALLS AREA HISTORY TOUR (See Map at Centerfold)
The main reason for the battle, as expressed by supporters of a new Red Lake county, was that Crookston, being the county seat of Polk, drew all the strength of the county to itself, but rarely did anything of service for the people.
Soon after Red Lake was officially declared a county, the residents of Thief River Falls began a campaign to name their city as the county seat.
The name Lake Agassiz was given this prehistoric glacial lake by Warren Upham in 1879 in the Eighth Annual Report of the Minnesota Geological Survey.According to Upham, the first true explanation of the lake's existence was presented by a geologist professor of the university in 1872.
www.harpercollege.edu /mhealy/tour/tour2.htm   (6094 words)

  
 Manitoba Hydro Electric Energy and Natural Gas
Manitoba Hydro today announced the installation of the final three wind monitoring facilities that will gather information about wind conditions in the province.
The St. Leon tower is approximately six kilometres southeast of the town of St. Leon while the Lake Manitoba Narrows tower is approximately 22 kilometres southwest of Ashern.
Manitoba Hydro also erected a tower near Letellier at the northwest corner of the intersection of Provincial Highway 75 and Highway 14.
www.hydro.mb.ca /news/releases/news_03_06_10.shtml   (343 words)

  
 Debris Timber Harvesting Project Will Provide Many Benefits for Chemawawin Cree Nation - Indian and Northern Affairs ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
"Manitoba Hydro shares a mutual interest with the Chemawawin Cree Nation in the well-being of Cedar Lake, and with this in mind, we at Manitoba Hydro are pleased to support this innovative endeavour."
Financing in the amount of $1 million was provided by Manitoba Hydro, while the Cree Nation provided the remaining $350,000 through cash and commercial financing.
Estimates of the volume of debris timber floating in the lake, beached on its shores, or on its bottom range from 1,000,000 (60-year supply) to 2,800,000 (150-year supply) cubic metres.
www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /nr/prs/s-d2001/2-01232_e.html   (652 words)

  
 Manitoba Sighting in 1998
When we reached the lake we discovered that there were no sites to set up a camp.
There is a small reserve village at the end of Cedar lake called Easterville, but no other habitations for 100's of miles.
The next morning we go up early to hike to the site to look for amber, we found that you could not walk on a shore or beach because the water was right up to the piles of logs, twigs, lumber, trunks, and sticks.
www.cactusventures.com /webstuff6/manitoba_sighting_1998.htm   (640 words)

  
 January 2004: Reviewing Manitoba’s environmental sustainability initiatives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Manitoba Hydro’s generating station at the junction of Cedar Lake and Lake Winnipeg.
In addition, Manitoba water quality standards, objectives and guidelines have been updated to become among the most comprehensive frameworks in the nation for water protection.
Actions to protect Lake Winnipeg: To begin the task of reducing nutrient levels in Lake Winnipeg, new sewage and septic field regulations have been passed and requirements have been introduced for septic field installers.
www.esemag.com /0104/manitoba.html   (321 words)

  
 Dragon In The Loch: Index
There are many lakes all over the world that have had sightings of long necked, strange creatures.
Once we realize they are all over the world, Serious hunters may find the evidence needed to add these creatures to our list of endangered animals, and one day maybe we can all know these creatures as well as we do a dolphin.
Walgren Lake (formerly Alkali Lake and Stinker Lake)
www.geocities.com /nessie_hunter/LakeCryptids.html   (179 words)

  
 Satellite images of Manitoba’s Great Lakes
I post satellite images of Lake Winnipeg and microphotographs of the lake’s algae on this web site from time to time, as new images or samples become available.
Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium in planning scientific missions.
Left:  The west side of the North Basin is becoming quite green – at least partly due to algae in the water column, but no where near the colour of surface blooms that develop later in the open water season.
home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~gmccullo/LWsat.htm   (2219 words)

  
 Geological Survey | Mineral Resources Division | Manitoba Industry, Economic Development and Mines
Manitoba’s geology and mineral dispositions displayed in an interactive mapped environment including mineral occurrence and geochronological data, assessment files and drill hole locations.
Examine data from new mineralization and alteration zones discovered by Manitoba Geological Survey staff during the course of their fieldwork.
Discover Manitoba’s PGE potential with access to geological and geochemical data for over 200 mafic and ultramafic intrusions to assist exploration.
www.gov.mb.ca /iedm/mrd/geo   (327 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The major deposits of Canadian Amber are at Cedar Lake, Manitoba, with some minor deposits, primarily in Western Canada.
At the time the Cedar lake deposit was dicovered in 1889, Amber in the Baltic was being used for industrial and gemstone purposes to a high degree, so that the discovery of the Cedar Lake Amber was given considerable attention as an economic source of industrial and gem quality amber.
Presently there is not enough amber at Cedar Lake to pull out economically for commercial use, and the amber that is recovered there know is primarily used for scientific study or goes into private or public collections.
hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca /amber/web14b.htm   (327 words)

  
 Pozniak's Lodge  -  Red Cedar Lodge, Ontario
Our fishing is good and Red Cedar Lake is noted for it’s pickerel (walleye), and northern pike fishing, although it also produces fairly good catches of small mouth bass and perch.
Pozniak’s spacious, private cottages are fully equipped rustic log cabins, with three piece bathrooms, and one to four bedrooms.
The hunter, pausing by a northern lake, is in awe at the sight of a moose feeding quietly in the wilderness.
www.internetsportshow.com /searchit/pozniakslodge.htm   (475 words)

  
 Fishing HQ : Canadian Fishing
Fishing for walleye, northern pike, lake trout and smallmouth bass.
Fishing lodge offersfishing for northern pike and lake trout.
Fly-In lake trout and grayling fishing lodges and camps.
www.fishing-hq.com /canadianfishing/index.php   (907 words)

  
 Updates 1999 - hydroelectric dams destroying Manitoba Cree rivers
After Manitoba Hydro built these projects in the 1970s, 3.3 million acres of our traditional lands were flooded and destroyed, or made inaccessible to us.
But Manitoba Hydro counts on your utilities to downplay the ecological consequences, which are, after all, out of sight and out of mind.
The Cross Lake Crees are enlisting the support of environmentalists and human rights organizations in their fight against Manitoba Hydro, a utility company they claim has destroyed their livelihoods and environment.
www.alphacdc.com /treaty/hydro_1999.html   (5790 words)

  
 METIS CULTURE 1737-1740
The Ojibwa Chiefs of Lake Superior requested that hostilities by the French against their brothers, the Sauk and Fox peoples, be stopped.
Fort Saint Charles is 60 to 70 leagues south west of the Lake of the Woods.
The Cree are east of Lake Winnipeg, Northwest, and near Rainy Lake (Ontario) and Lake of the Woods (Ontario).
www.agt.net /public/dgarneau/metis10.htm   (8195 words)

  
 Manitoba Birding News
Whitewater Lake is a large, shallow body of water located in southwest Manitoba.
We finally arrived at Ambroise Provincial Park, on the edge of Lake Manitoba (the second-largest lake in the province; Lake Winnipeg is first).
The lake had a few good things: a flock of female Common Goldeneye were the first to greet us, and way out in the water (and flying by as well) were lots of Franklin's, Ring-billed, and Herring Gulls, with a few token Bonies every once in awhile.
www.web-nat.com /bic/manitoba.html   (2599 words)

  
 Noah the Tundra Swan's Whereabouts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The bird was later located 215km north on April —23 at the Narrows on Lake Manitoba.
The Narrows is located southwest of Ashern, at the narrowest part of Lake Manitoba.
Noah was than located a distance of 322km northwest at Cedar Lake, Manitoba from April 25 thru May 12.
www.bsc-eoc.org /lpbo/swans/3687.html   (237 words)

  
 Kansas Amber
The leaf impressions, primarily in sandstone, are of trees similar to modern oak, willow, poplar, laurel, sarsaparillas, magnolias, and sassafras, none of which are native to this area today.
These similarities in IR data, are consistent with Buddhue (1938b) and Langenheim and Beck (1968) who suggested jelinite and other fossil resins originated from the Araucariaceae in spite of the fact that these gymnosperms no longer occur in the Northern Hemisphere.
Waggoner (1996) went on to state the paleohabitat was relatively transient or variable, and that the lack of soil particles or plant debris eliminated a soil or litter paleohabitat (p.
www.emporia.edu /earthsci/amber/ksamber.htm   (2659 words)

  
 Ancient Seas of Manitoba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Although southern Manitoba was covered with water during the
They consist of logs thought to have drifted into the area from the western shore of the ocean.
Amber from Cedar Lake, Manitoba is by far the richest and biologically the most important Canadian amber known.
collections.ic.gc.ca /ancientseas/paleobotany.htm   (160 words)

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