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Churchill River Basin in Canada
The Churchill River (French: fleuve Churchill) is a major river in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. From the head of the Churchill Lake it is 1,609 km long.[1] It was named after John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough and governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1685 to 1691. The Cree name for the river is Missinipi, meaning "big waters".[2]

Its source is in Central-East Alberta (Beaver Lake, Beaver River, Sand River, Cold Lake, Winefred River), which drain into a series of lakes in in Saskatchewan (Churchill, Peter Pond, Ile a la Crosse). The main tributary, the Beaver River, joins at Lac Ile a la Crosse. A large amount of flow of the Churchill River after Manitoba - Saskatchewan border comes from the Reindeer River, which drains Wollaston Lake and Reindeer Lake. Flow from Reindeer Lake is regulated by the Whitesand Dam. From there, the Churchill River flows east through a series of lakes (Highrock, Granville, Southern Indian and Gauer), then flows via a diversion for hydro-electric generation into the Nelson River (60% of flow) into Button Bay inlet on Hudson Bay at Churchill, Manitoba [3].

For information on canoeing the Saskatchewan portion of the Churchill RIver, see the books Canoeing the Churchill: A Practical Guide to the Historic Voyageur Highway by Greg Marchildon & Sid Robinson, and Northern Saskatchewan Canoe Trips: A Guide to Fifteen Wilderness Rivers by Laurel Archer.

References

1. ^ Statistics Canada - Rivers of Canada, Source: Natural Resources Canada, GeoAccess Division. Last modified: 2005-02-02
2. ^ Canadian Encyclopedia
3. ^ Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan

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Hudson's Bay Company
Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson

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Founded London, England May 2, 1670
Headquarters Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Revenue $7.0 billion CAD ($59.
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Origin Beaver Lake, Alberta
Mouth Lac Ile-a-la Crosse, Saskatchewan
Basin countries Canada
Length 491 km

Mouth elevation 421 m
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Location Alberta, Saskatchewan

Primary sources Martineau River
Primary outflows Cold River

Basin countries Canada

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Manitoba


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Location northeastern Saskatchewan
Coordinates Coordinates: [1]
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Location central Canada

Primary outflows Reindeer River

Basin countries Canada
Max length 230 km (143 mi)
Max width 60 km (37 mi)

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Nelson River (French: fleuve Nelson) is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Its full length is 2575 km (1600 mile), it has mean discharge of 2370 m³/s (3100 yd³/s), and has a drainage basin of 982900 km² (379500 sq.
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Hudson Bay (French: baie d'Hudson) is a large (1.23 million km²), relatively shallow body of water in northeastern Canada. It drains a very large area that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, parts of North Dakota and Minnesota, and
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Churchill (2006 Population 923) is a town on the shore of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada, situated at the mouth of the Churchill River. The small community stands at an ecotone, the juncture of two ecoregions: the boreal forest to the south, and the Arctic tundra to the north.
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