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SASKATCHEWAN (Cree: " Rapid River ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 226 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SASKATCHEWAN
SASKATCHEWAN (Cree: " Rapid River ")

SASKATCHEWAN (See also:
CREE
Cree: " Rapid See also:
RIVER
River ") , a river of See also:

ALBERTA

Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces, See also:

CANADA

Canada. Two large streams known as the See also:

North and See also:

South Saskatchewan unite near See also:

Prince See also:

Albert, and thence flow E. into See also:

Lake See also:

WINNIPEG

Winnipeg. The North Saskatchewan rises in the Rocky Mountains in 52° 07' N. and 117° o6' W., and flows See also:

east, though with many windings, receiving several important tributaries, including the Clearwater, Brazeau and See also:

BATTLE

Battle. The South Saskatchewan is formed by the See also:

union of the See also:

BOW (pronounced " bo ")

Bow and the Belly, the former and larger of which rises in western Alberta in one of the highest districts of the Rockies. Flowing east in an extremely tortuous course, it receives the See also:

WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of the Red See also:

Deer, and farther on turns abruptly north to its junction with the other See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch. The length of the See also:

UNITED

united Saskatchewan is about 300 m.; shallow See also:

DRAUGHT (from the common Teutonic word " to draw "; cf. Ger. 7'racht, load; the pronunciation led to the variant form " draft," now confined to certain specific meanings)

draught steamers ascend from its mouth to See also:

EDMONTON

Edmonton on the North Branch, a distance of about 85o m.

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