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	Assiniboine River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Assiniboine River is a 1070 km long river that runs through the prairies of western Canada.
		It is a typical meandering river with a single main channel embanked within a flat, shallow valley.
		It flows south-east from Saskatchewan to "The Forks" in Winnipeg, Manitoba where it joins the Red River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assiniboine_River (199 words)

	Saskatchewan River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It reaches approximates 1,939 km (1204 and a half miles) to its furthest headwaters on the Bow River, a tributary of the South Saskatchewan in Alberta.
		It is formed in central Saskatchewan, approximately 40 km (25 mi) east of Prince Albert, by the confluence of its two major branches, the North Saskatchewan and the South Saskatchewan, at the Saskatchewan River Forks.
		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)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Saskatchewan River
		The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river flowing east from the Canadian Rockies to Lake Winnipeg.
		The South Saskatchewan River flows eastward from the confluence of the Bow and Oldman Rivers near Grassy Lake, Alberta.
		The population of Moose Jaw grew from 1,500 to 14,000 and Regina grew from 2,300 to 30,000.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saskatchewan-River (1548 words)

	North Saskatchewan River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The North Saskatchewan River (French: rivière Saskatchewan Nord) is a glacier-fed river flowing east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan.
		In Edmonton, the river passes through the centre of the city in a northeasterly direction and out towards Smoky Lake at which point it quickly changes to the southeast and then more to the east as it makes it way to the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary.
		From the Saskatchewan boundary, the river flows southeast between North Battleford and Battleford and on in the direction of Saskatoon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Saskatchewan_River (343 words)

	Red River of the North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is called the Red River of the North in order to distinguish it from another Red River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that forms part of the border between Texas and Oklahoma).
		That province's capital, Winnipeg, is at its confluence with the Assiniboine River.
		The Red River is one of the remnants of the ancient Lake Agassiz.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Red_River_of_the_North.html (1336 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of rivers in Canada
		The list of rivers in Canada is organized by drainage basin (new format) and province (old format to be removed).
		The inner city is, in turn, surrounded by relatively dense and established neighbourhoods such as Rosedale and Mount Pleasant to the north, Bowness and Westgate to the west, Park Hill, South Calgary and Killarney to the south, and Forest Lawn to the east.
		Sandwiched between the rocky upper river and the lower rapids of the Main, the Big Steady is an enriched floodplain of calm waters, bordered by lush meadows.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-rivers-in-Canada (752 words)

	Rivers of Canada: Red River - The passageway to the Prairies
		But both rivers can flash into a rage that devastates the towns and cities that are in the way of their periodic spring floods.
		The Red River's origin is in the United States, in Lake Traverse on the border between Minnesota and North Dakota.
		The Forks, in the centre of Winnipeg, where the Red joins its major tributary, the Assiniboine, was the main arena of the struggles for control of the Canadian West.
	www.ccge.org /ccge/english/Resources/rivers/tr_rivers_redRiver.asp (440 words)

	Rivers in the Upper Missouri, Yellowstone, and Upper Columbia River Ecosystem, Mountain-Prairie Region, U.S. Fish and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Within the MOYOCO ecosystem in Montana, the two main river systems are the Missouri River and its tributaries, which flow east to the Mississippi River, and tributaries of the Columbia River, which flow west into the Pacific Ocean.
		West of this continental backbone are the Clark Fork and the Kootenai River, important tributaries of the Columbia River.
		The Missouri and its major tributary, the Yellowstone River, are the principal rivers in eastern Montana.
	www.r6.fws.gov /moyoco/moyoco5.html (1009 words)

	River Systems of the World
		River water is diverted for agricultural irrigation, industry, hygiene, and related uses.
		Where possible, diverted water may be returned to the river clean and near the point of diversion; specifically, some municipal water supplies treat their sewage and return fairly clean water to the river.
		Most rivers are not so lucky: either the water comes back contaminated with pollutants, or not at all.
	www.rev.net /~aloe/river (465 words)

	North Saskatchewan on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT: $1.8 million announced for rental market housing in the north.
		SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT: Wiens to continue dialogue on agricultural trade issues in North Dakota.
		SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT: Provincial funding for school improvement project in North Battleford.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-N1orthS1as.asp (312 words)

	Nipawin.com - History
		Since only physically vigorous young Indians were capable of making the voyages by canoe over the hundreds of miles of terrifying waters, the women and children would watch their husbands and sons paddle away.
		Lumber mills dotted the forests and great spring river runs of logs glided down the Carrot and Saskatchewan Rivers to The Pas for processing.
		The CPR Railway built a million dollar bridge over the Saskatchewan River in 1928, and the bridge which is still in use, is now known as Nipawin's crooked bridge.
	www.nipawin.com /History.php (728 words)

	RiverWatchOnline News
		Although damage wasn't done in the city, the Roseau River reached water levels in 2004 and 2006 that are in the top five in its history.
		Had the floodway not been in use this spring, the Red River in downtown Winnipeg would have peaked at close to 28 feet, 3.5 feet higher than it was during the 1997 flood.
		Levels of the Red River declined nearly three feet from Emerson to the floodway inlet in the 48-hour period ending this morning and are expected to continue to decline quickly.
	www.pol.org /features/riverwatch/news (6062 words)

	Top20Montana.com - Your Top20 Guide to Montana!
		In the south near the Yellowstone River lies the Absaroka Mountains and the Beartooth Plateau, where many of the mountains reach an altitude of over 10,500 feet (3,200 m) and the peaks are perpetually covered with snow.
		The principal river systems in Montana are the Clark Fork of the Columbia, the Missouri, and the Yellowstone.
		The Clark Fork of the Columbia (not to be confused with the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River) rises in the Rocky Mountains near Butte, and after flowing west turns north and forms a portion of the Idaho boundary.
	www.top20montana.com (2447 words)

	Alwynne B. Beaudoin - E-SCAPE - The SCAPE file - The Forks area - Ethnohistory and Ethnobotany
		Leighton, A. Ethnobotany of the Nihithawak, Saskatchewan Woods Cree of the "Th"(d) dialect.
		The Quest for Pasquatinow: An Aboriginal Gathering Centre in the Saskatchewan River Valley.
		Saskatchewan River Rendezvous Centers and Trading Posts: Continuity in a Cree Social Geography.
	www.scirpus.ca /escape/scapebib/sect430.htm (324 words)

	FCPP Publications :: It's Time to Harness Winnipeg Rivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A single river management and development authority, modeled on the one overseeing the south Saskatchewan river, is one option to make full use of our rivers and capture the economic and life benefits they offer.
		Our rivers should be considered a viable transportation option, linking the downtown with many sectors of the city, in both winter and open water seasons.
		Our river walkways are unusable again this summer due to flooding; the long-term costs of riverbank erosion are unknown; and over the top federal fisheries regulations limit the options of riverbank landowners who want to develop or stabilize their own shorelines.
	www.fcpp.org /publication_detail.php?PubID=4 (1472 words)

	Montana Vacation Rentals: Home House & Cabin Rental, Cottage Canada - USA
		Along the middle Missouri River and in the southeastern section, an irregular badland topography was cut by water and wind erosion.
		Montana’s two main river systems are the Missouri River and its tributaries, which flow east to the Mississippi River, and tributaries of the Columbia River, which flow west into the Pacific Ocean.
		A tiny area of Montana is drained by the Belly and Saint Mary rivers, which, rising in Glacier National Park, flow northeast out of the state and into the Saskatchewan River in Canada.
	www.cottage-canada-usa.com /montana.htm (967 words)

	NPS Publications: History of Glacier National Park
		In 1754-5, Anthony Hendry wintered with the Blackfoot, probably wandering the region of the Bow river in Alberta and passing down the Red Deer and South Forks of the Saskatchewan in the spring.
		The year after Cumberland House was built, J. Cadotte built a post at the Forks of the Saskatchewan and the enterprising Canadians were, no doubt, in general ahead of the Hudson's Bay posts.
		Four men sent by him were probably the first whites to paddle down the South Fork of the Saskatchewan from near its headwaters.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/berkeley/beals2/beals2c.htm (2613 words)

	Saskatoon on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT: Associated Entities Fund grants -- Saskatoon -- May 1999.
		The largest city in the province, it is the chief manufacturing and distribution center for central and N Saskatchewan.
		The Univ. of Saskatchewan with its affiliated colleges is there, and a dominion forestry station is nearby.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Saskatoo.asp (342 words)

	Real Estate Weekly
		The Hudsons Bay Company was determined to establish a river route the 940 mile distance from Grand Rapids (in the soon to be formed province of Manitoba) to Edmonton.
		The Northcote was the first steamboat to successfully ascend the river and its 130 tons of cargo made a big impact on the townsfolk.
		A year later, when the river flooded in August, the Northwest - known in her heyday as the Greyhound of the Saskatchewan - was lifted from her moorings and carried downstream, smashing into the centre pier of the net yet completed Low Level Bridge.
	www.rewedmonton.ca /content_view?CONTENT_ID=736 (859 words)

	Top20NorthDakota.com - Your Top20 Guide to North Dakota!
		North Dakota is bordered on the north by the Canadian Provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, on the west by Montana, on the south by South Dakota, and on the east, across the Red River of the North and the Bois de Sioux River, by Minnesota.
		Farms and ranches stretch across the rolling plains from the Red River Valley in the east to the rugged Badlands in the west.
		Wheat (particularly the durum variety used for pasta), barley, soybeans, sunflowers, and flax are present throughout the state, the wetter Red River Valley is dominated by farms, with the chief crops being Sugar beets and maize.
	top20northdakota.com (2110 words)

	Jasper National Park - History - The Fur Trade and Exploration
		The group was to ascend to the Grand Forks of the Smoky where they were to meet another group of Iroquois, wait until Spring, and then cross the mountains (via Robson Pass) to make friends with the Shuswap Indians of the upper reaches of the Fraser.
		Tete Jaune continued trapping and trading in the area and by 1827 had relocated his cache from the Grand Fork of the Fraser to the vicinity of the Shuswap salmon fishing camp on the Fraser River where the town of Tete Jaune Cache stands today.
		Sometime in 1828, near the headwaters of the Smoky River, he, his brother, their wives and children were murdered by the Beaver Indians for revenge on the Iroquois for their earlier encroachment into the Beaver's hunting territory.
	www.canadianrockies.net /furtrade.html (742 words)

	OC Online - Fishing - Best Places to Fish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		While there may be fewer trophy fish in the Winnipeg River than in the Red, there are still loads of fish here, including some dandies that top the scales at 15 pounds or more.
		The Forks is located where the Bow and Oldman rivers join north of Grassy Lake to form the South Saskatchewan River.
		This river rose to the forefront of the continent’s walleye fisheries in the early ’90s by giving up numerous 18- to 20- pounders in Washington and Oregon.
	www.outdoorcanada.ca /fish/best_walleye.shtml (1639 words)

	Nordegg area of Alberta
		The flow of the mighty North Saskatchewan River was brought under human control when the Bighorn Dam began to fill, in 1972.
		This river, seen here in 1943, as it flowed through the mountain gap at Windy Point, now fills a large area of the North Saskatchewan River Valley, and has become known as Lake Abraham.
		The wide North Saskatchewan River Valley acts as a funnel for fierce and unpredictable winds which race down the Rockies' eastern slopes and roar eastward.
	nordegghistoricalsociety.8m.com /area.html (1782 words)

	ytc_manitoba
		Three historic rivers, the Red, Assiniboine and Seine, merge here at a place called "The Forks." Not long ago, trains shunted back and forth, and river craft dumped their cargo at this busy downtown site.
		To many first nations people, The Forks is where their ancestors hunted, fished and camped for centuries.
		Its river is a tributary of the Assiniboine, which connects to the Forks at Winnipeg.
	www.airhighways.com /ytc_manitoba.htm (2138 words)

	David Thompson Canada's greatest Geographer
		It was the North Saskatchewan River that brought to Rocky Mountain House the greatest of land geographers and one of Canada's great explorers.
		Indeed the North Saskatchewan bore witness to many encounters Thompson had with the Peigan and Blackfoot Indians who made a special crusade of denying the passes to traders bent on crossing.
		the bend of the river is 180 yards while the distance from the top of the bank on which the fort stands to the opposite bank is 250 yards, at high water the whole of this place is covered, and flows with a strong current.
	www.davidthompsonthings.com /geog1.html (6103 words)

	Bill Layman & Lynda Holland's 2003 Porcupine River Trip
		Not because it is a poor book - it is far from that - but because the river is way, way higher than when she paddled it and the descriptions bear little resemblance to what we found today.
		This river is really hauling ass and after a short day of only about five hours of paddling, we still ended up covering close to 18 miles.
		This is the Grease-lip River, (McIntyre River) which has been so named by the Indians because of the herds of fat caribou that live around it in the winter.
	www.out-there.com /b03_08.htm (2005 words)

	SearchEngine.net - North Saskatchewan River
		Large Saskatchewan map showing all areas of the province.
		With its numerous access locations along its path, the North Saskatchewan River may well be the most used river for boating, fishing, rafting,
		shore of the North Saskatchewan River, Hudson's Bay Company surveyor and astronomer Peter Fidler was sent to the Saskatchewan River to...
	www.searchengine.net /North_Saskatchewan_River.htm (210 words)

	Crowsnest Highway
		The first train into Edmonton, N-WT, crosses the North Saskatchewan River on the Low Level Bridge from Strathcona on the rails of the Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway.
		CP had chosen its remaining four coal sections in the Elk River valley allowed under the tripartite Agreement of 1897.
		Grand Forks, BC: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway crosses the Kettle River Valley Railway: KRVR retaliates by parking an old locomotive on the crossing.
	www.crowsnest-highway.ca /timeline.pl?page=12 (1581 words)

	Keeseekoowenin - Riding Mountain Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Little Saskatchewan River is a tightly-meandering tributary of the Assiniboine, flowing south out of Lake Audy and Clear Lake (footnote 1), generally following a southeast course through a fertile deeply-entrenched heavily-treed valley.
		It was referred to as the River St. Peter by LaVerendrye.
		In 1806, Alexander Henry speaks of it as the "Rapid River".
	collections.ic.gc.ca /keeseekoowenin/history/RMGeography.html (667 words)

	METIS CULTURE 1803-1804
		Red River des Metis, birth Elisabeth Lagemoniere, Metis, b-1803 daughter Jean Baptiste Lagemoniere, a bigamist, born December 26, 1778, died September 7, 1855, married 1st Josephte Indian and married 1806 Maskinouge, Marie Anne Gaboury, born August 15, 1780, Quebec, died December, 1875 daughter Joseph Gaboury and unknown.
		A second fort is built on the Saskatchewan River near Duck Lake and near future Fort Carlton.
		September 19: The Red River Settlement Metis are making gallon kegs of pickles from maple sap vinegar, that they claim is not as good as the eastern variety, but passable.
	www.telusplanet.net /public/dgarneau/metis33.htm (6456 words)

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