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	Slave River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The river is (additional info and facts about 434 km) 434 km in length.
		Water from this river reaches the (Ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs) Arctic Ocean through the (A Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea) Mackenzie River.
		This river's name is thought to come from a (The Algonquian language spoken by the Cree people) Cree name which meant "slave" or "stranger".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sl/slave_river.htm (119 words)

	Slave River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from Lake Athabasca in northeastern Alberta and empties into Great Slave Lake.
		Water from this river reaches the Arctic Ocean through the Mackenzie River.
		This river's name is thought to come from a Cree name which meant "slave" or "stranger".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slave_River (95 words)

	The SLAVE RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
		Unsung Explorer: As a young man in the early 1800's, Slave River Métis trader François Beaulieu served as a guide to both Alexander Mackenzie and John Franklin in their exploration of the Canadian northwest.
		Long regarded as the gateway to the Arctic by aboriginal hunters, the Slave is also the veteran of a starring role in the western fur trade of the 19th century.
		Today, the Slave is a favoured destination of canoeists, kayakers and rafters, and a magnet for naturalists, birders and other eco-tourists.
	www.greatcanadianrivers.com /rivers/slaveriver/slave-home.html (174 words)

	AllRefer.com - Slave, Canada (Canadian Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Slave, river, c.310 mi (500 km) long, Northwest Territories, Canada.
		It comprises the middle sections of the Mackenzie River system.
		The river channels the waters of Lake Athabasca and the Peace River into Great Slave Lake at Fort Resolution.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Slave.html (177 words)

	Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World, by Thomas C. Buchanan. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By juxtaposing the freedoms of river mobility with the oppressions of riverside society, Twain's story memorializes the nation's historic fascination with liberty and independence while showing how dependent these ideas were on slavery to derive their meaning.
		The river and its fl steamboat hands were an important, and underappreciated, component of the fl networks that enabled slaves to reach freedom.
		Most large cities housed a hundred or more free fl river workers.[26] When the total number of free fl river workers is compared to the small populations of free fls in these cities it is clear that the river industry was an important employer for free fls as well, especially for men.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/buchanan_black.html (4230 words)

	Mackenzie on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Between Great Slave Lake and Lake Athabasca it is known as the Slave River.
		The river is navigable from the Arctic Ocean to Great Slave Lake between June and October.
		The Liard River affords transportation between Fort Nelson, British Columbia, and the Arctic; the Athabasca-Mackenzie system is followed by a major shipping route between Edmonton, Alta., and the Arctic.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mackenz.asp (756 words)

	9. Rivers and Lakes of Canada
		Rivers in Canada flow into five major ocean drainage basins: the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans, Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
		The river system with the largest drainage area is the Mackenzie River, with 1 805 200 square kilometres- one- fifth of Canada.
		Great Slave Lake is fed chiefly by the Slave River, which combines the waters of the Peace and Athabasca systems.
	www.canadainfolink.ca /chartnine.htm (876 words)

	Slave River -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Their name, Awokanak, or Slave, was given them by the Cree, who plundered and often enslaved numbers of them, and this name became the familiar one used by the...
		in 18th- and 19th-century history, the section of the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, in Africa, extending approximately from the Volta River in the west to Lagos, in modern Nigeria, or, alternatively, the Niger Delta in the east (in the present-day republics of Togo, Benin, and Nigeria).
		Formed by the union of the Finlay and Parsnip rivers at Finlay Forks, B.C., the river flows eastward into the Rocky Mountains through a gorge 900 feet (274 meters) deep and emerges at Hudson Hope, B.C. East of the mountains it flows northeast across...
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9378859 (855 words)

	General News of Wednesday, 18 July 2001
		Barima Nkyi said Assin Manso, one of the slave routes in Ghana and identified by the United Nations Development Programme, Ministry of Tourism and the World Tourism Organisation, is the adopted seat for the celebration of the Caribbean festival (Emancipation).
		He said his ancestors had preserved the slave cemetery and the Slave River (Ndonkonsuo) and had been celebrating reverential ceremonies during the annual festival of the traditional area, which has been dovetailed into the Emancipation Day ceremony since its introduction in Ghana in 1998.
		The slave route at Assin Manso, he noted, has become very popular and thousands of tourists from America and the Caribbean troop to see the site where there is the Slave River and the tombs of the re-interred enslaved Africans from New York and Jamaica.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=16719 (733 words)

	Athabasca River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Fed from the southwest by the Peace and Athabasca rivers (the deltas of which have separated it from Lakes Claire and Mamawi), it is drained to the...
		From the confluence of the Peace River and several small streams draining Lake Athabasca, the Slave flows northward for 258 miles (415 km)...
		From headstreams (the Finlay and the Parsnip rivers) in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, the Peace River flows northeastward across the Alberta prairies, receiving its major tributaries (the Smoky and the Wabasca rivers) before joining the Slave...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9010050?tocId=9010050&query=athabasca (814 words)

	Slave River kayaking whitewater paddling
		The Slave River ambles slowly northward from Alberta's Lake Athabasca, milk-chocolate brown with silt picked up as it crosses the Peace-Athabasca Delta.
		The river proceeds at a leisurely pace toward Great Slave Lake until reaching Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta, where the waters accelerate as they spill off the Canadian Shield.
		Native Cree, Slave, Chipewyan, and Beaver people traveled the portages that were followed by white men in the 18th century.
	www.canoekayak.com /features/slave (1102 words)

	Background - The Slave River and Delta - Northern River Basin Study Final Report - Alberta Environment
		The Slave River drains north, still serving as the eastern border of Wood Buffalo National Park.
		Due to the high volume of water, the rapids along this stretch of river possess enormous hydroelectric potential and a large-scale hydroelectric development was proposed for the area.
		Alberta Environment conducted the Slave River Hydro Feasibility Study during the early 1980s to investigate the economic benefit and environmental impacts of the proposed dam.
	www3.gov.ab.ca /env/water/nrbs/sect1/sect15.html (366 words)

	Alberta Heritage Alphabet
		This spectacular section of the Slave River is one of the finest examples of rapids in North America and has been designated as a National Historic Site because of its significance as a transportation barrier that affected the development of Canada's north.
		For most of its course, the Slave River follows the boundary between the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Cambrian Shield to the east and the sedimentary rocks of the Interior Plains to the west.
		Before the construction of the portage road on the west side of the river, the other three sets of rapids were bypassed on the east using narrow side-channels.
	www.albertasource.ca /alphabet/article.php?article_id=95 (491 words)

	Slave_River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Each day after the Mountain run we would stop a hole called Playground and play king of the wave and things like that, and then was faced by the big hill to hike up that ended into a swarm of bugs.
		The bugs on the Slave are the WORST, hands down I have ever seen.
		The Slave River is a MUST for any boater.
	www.huckinhuge.com /Slave_River.html (405 words)

	Shipping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Slave River rapids presented the only serious barrier to shipping traffic from railheads in Alberta to dozens of communities in the Northwest Territory, the rapidly growing oil developments in Norman Wells and many mining communities such as Yellowknife.
		In the early days the aboriginal inhabitants of the South Slave region used the Slave River system to travel and trade with their neighbors and the rapidly developing network of European fur traders.
		Shipping routes were established along the Slave River to facilitate the transport of goods to the more remote and isolated communities in the NWT.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /canoe/shipping.htm (400 words)

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		This activity was mentioned by 85% of households overallÑ 81% in Yellowknife, 91% in Hay River and 95% in Inuvik.
		Hiking and swimming were frequently activities for Yellowknife (64% and 68%) and Hay River (68% and 59%), as was camping (50% for both centres).
		For example, Hay River households were most likely to report being willing to pay $100 (24%), most likely to say they were unwilling to contribute at all (19%), and least likely not to have an opinion on this matter (1%).
	www.stats.gov.nt.ca /Statinfo/Industry/tourism/park94.doc (1040 words)

	Kayak & Canoe News, Trip Reports, CA, NT, Back from the Slave River
		The Slave river flows in the middle of the forest, between the Athabasca lake and the 'Grand Lac des Esclaves'.
		The rivers widens for Casset Rapid and it is advisable to go down this section with a local because you might miss out on the many playspots...
		Depending on the water levels, it is even possible to creek the Slave as one of the channels consists of a succession of waterfalls; all paddleable in a creek boat.
	boats.playak.com /article.php?sid=389 (1617 words)

	Cargo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some of the most unique passengers on the Slave River made their passage during the summer of 1925.
		Later the animals were loaded on two special barges that were pushed by a steam boat 275 miles down the Athabasca and the Slave rivers.
		Seven return trips were required to move all of the animals to their new home along the banks of the Slave River.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /canoe/cargo.htm (378 words)

	Peace and Slave Rivers Info; Peace Point to Fitzgerald
		A certain amount of the Peace River's flow detours via this channel at high water or when the lower stretches are ice-jammed in spring.
		By using this channel, the rapids at the confluence of the Peace River and the Slave River may be by-passed.
		The Slave River drains north from Lake Athabasca, which is largely fed by the Athabasca River.
	internet.cybermesa.com /~swede/peace/info-ppf.html (1152 words)

	Search Results for slave - Encyclopædia Britannica
		river in northern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories, Canada, forming an integral part of the Mackenzie River waterway.
		Explored by Samuel Hearne in 1771–72, the river was named after the...
		in 18th- and 19th-century history, the section of the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, in Africa, extending approximately from the Volta River in the west to Lagos, in modern Nigeria, or, alternatively,...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=slave&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (489 words)

	Slave Kayak Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Slave River in Canada's Northwest Territories has the BIGGEST and BEST whitewater on the planet.
		Rapids on the Slave River run the gamut from Class II to Class VI, creeks to waterfalls to big, BIG water.
		The Slave Kayak Lodge is only open from the beginning of June to the end of August.
	www.slavekayaklodge.com /lodge.php?id=4 (1436 words)

	AlbertaFirst.com - Lesser Slave River No. 124, M.D. of
		The Municipal District of Lesser Slave River encompasses 10,150 km
		Smaller rivers and streams also form part of the diverse topography and ecosystems, marked by mixed-wood forests, rolling foothills of the Pelican Mountains and Swan Hills, and some farmland; primarily in the southeastern sector.
		The Municipal District of Lesser Slave River is part of the High Prairie School Division #48 and Aspen View Regional Division # 19.
	www.albertafirst.com /profiles/statspack/20684.html (3037 words)

	MACKENZIE - Online Information article about MACKENZIE
		Athabasca; thence to Great Slave Lake it is known as Slave river.
		Battle, and Loon rivers; those of the Mackenzie are the Liard (65o m.
		Grand Rapids near Fort McMurray on the Athabasca river.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LUP_MAL/MACKENZIE.html (464 words)

	MacKenzie River Watershed - NT
		The Slave is such a quiet and slow moving river.
		Hay river is one of the largest towns you will encounter and it has all the things you need.
		A section of the Slave River containing the famed Rapids of the Drowned is a class V section of whitewater which is extremely life threatening.
	www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?16 (1897 words)

	Protecting a Northern Great Lake
		Great Slave Lake, located in the Northwest Territories, is the deepest lake in North America and the fourth-largest in Canada.
		The shores of the lake between Yellowknife and Hay River are home to more than half the Territory's population, and fish from its waters support subsistence, sport and commercial fishing.
		In recent years, industrial development along the Peace and Athabasca rivers has raised concerns that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) could be transported via the Slave River into this previously pristine lake.
	www.cciw.ca /sande/jan_feb_2002-e.html (649 words)

	The True Yellowknives(Tatsanottine)Recognition Page
		Rocher River people like Charley Ribb, Jimmy Louyine, etc. were the first people to live in the area of what was later to be called "Rainbow Valley" at the end of Latham Island in the town of Yellowknife.
		Therefore, it can be seen that the true Yellowknives, the Rocher River people were at the time referred to as the Yellowknives A and B Bands due to the fact that some of the Rocher River Yellowknives moved to the town of Yellowknife.
		I was born on the Taltson River and raised in this house.
	www.theedge.ca /barbarabeck (4640 words)

	NWT - Fort Smith // Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The town is situated on the shore of the Slave River south of the "Rapids of the Drowned" and immediately north of the NWT/Alberta border.
		The Slavey Dene originally occupied the area around Fort Smith however by 1870 the Cree occupied the Slave River forcing the Dene to move north.
		Alexander Mackenzie had navigated the Slave River in his quest for a route to the Western Ocean.
	www.assembly.gov.nt.ca /VisitorInfo/NWTMapandHistory/fortsmith.html (504 words)

	Slave
		Slaves, poor whites, and the underground economy of the rural Carolinas.
		Slave trade in the Sudan in the nineteenth century and its suppression in the years 1877-80.
		FOOTPRINTS OF THE FUGITIVE: SLAVE NARRATIVE DISCOURSE AND THE TRACE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0845514.html (282 words)

	Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian - Uncorrected OCR Text for volume 18
		When these paths cross a lake, a wide river, or a barren plain, they are found to be much the best for the purpose; and if the path run through a cluster of woods, capable of affording materials for building a pound, it adds considerably to the commodiousness of the situation.
		Of beaver-hunting Hearne says: When the beaver which are situated in a small river or creek are to be taken, the Indians sometimes find it necessary to stake the river across, to prevent them from passing; after which, they endeavour to find out all their holes or places of retreat in the banks....
		In this manner they carry one another across rivers and the narrow parts of lakes in those little vessels, which seldom exceed twelve or thirteen feet in length, and are from twenty inches to two feet broad in the widest part.
	curtis.library.northwestern.edu /ocrtext.cgi?vol=18 (15457 words)

	AlbertaFirst.com - Slave Lake
		Slave Lake is making the most of its abundant natural resource setting and the creative energy of its citizens.
		Slave Lake is located 250 km northwest of Edmonton at the southeastern tip of Lesser Slave Lake, within the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River.
		Slave Lake’s population of 6,600 is steeped in cultural and ethnic diversity.
	www.albertafirst.com /profiles/statspack/20462.html (2603 words)

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