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    The Athabasca River (French: Rivière Athabasca) is a river in Alberta, Canada, which originates at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park and flows...
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    McLeod River is a river in west-central Alberta, Canada. It forms in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, and is a major tributary of the Athabasca...
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    before being joined by the Erith River. It then flows into the McLeod River, which in turn flows into the Athabasca River. It forms near Robb, Alberta at...
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  • Churchill River area as a clerk. Following the merger of the two fur trading companies in 1821, McLeod served at various posts in the Athabasca and Mackenzie...
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    number of tributary creeks before joining the McLeod River, which in turn flows into the Athabasca River. The Gregg is bridged by Alberta Highway 40. Berry's...
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    Great Slave Lake (category Tributaries of the Mackenzie River)
    Along with other lakes such as the Great Bear and Athabasca, it is a remnant of the vast glacial Lake McConnell. The lake has a very irregular shoreline...
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    Slave Lake and Mackenzie River, except for Petitot River which is drained through Liard River directly into the Mackenzie River, thus bypassing the Great...
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    with the Athabasca still in sight. The train crosses a curved trestle over Sundance Creek just west of Edson; then crosses the McLeod River on a 1,066-foot...
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    west down the Clearwater River to the Athabasca River at Fort McMurray and north down the Athabasca to the Peace-Athabasca Delta and the depot at Fort...
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    located at the confluence of four waterways – the Athabasca River, McLeod River, Sakwatamau River and Beaver Creek. A Canadian National rail line runs...
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    Whitehorse Creek (category Pages using infobox river with mapframe)
    Rockies, and is the first major tributary of the McLeod River, a major tributary of the Athabasca River. At its origin, inside Whitehorse Wildland Provincial...
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  • RBC Taylor Prize. McLeod was born in 1957 in Athabasca, Alberta. Originally from Treaty 8 Cree territory near Smith, Alberta, McLeod went on to work as...
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    glacial ice. That ice flows down the Athabasca Glacier to the Arctic Ocean via the Athabasca and Mackenzie rivers. Ice flowing west goes to the Pacific...
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    North of Athabasca Slave Lake and Mackenzie River Documents of the North West Company, 1800-1821. Rupert's Land Record Society series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's...
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  • Assiniboine Lake Athabaska Athabasca Landing Attawapiskat Lake Attawapiskat Babine Bad Lake Bad Throat Post Badger River (see Winisk River) Baie-Comeau Bernard...
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    Simon Fraser (explorer) (category Fraser River)
    and ascended the Parsnip and Pack Rivers, establishing Trout Lake Fort (later renamed Fort McLeod) at present-day McLeod Lake. This was the first permanent...
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    flowing in to the Mcleod River near Wolf Creek, Alberta. Fish found in the Edson River, near its confluence with the Mcleod River, include rainbow trout...
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    Peace River district was scheduled to take place on July 7, 1909. The only other riding in the province that had not yet voted was the Athabasca electoral...
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    useful materials. That winter, Archibald Norman McLeod attempted to starve the HBC posts in Athabasca by preventing their Indian hunters from entering...
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    Norman McLeod. In 1787, the company merged with the North West Company. On behalf of the North West Company, Mackenzie journeyed to Lake Athabasca where...
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  • early September of that year he was hired by Alexander McLeod as an interpreter at Lake Athabasca, at reduced wages due to cost-cutting measures by newly-appointed...
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    early French traders applied the name to the river for its treacherous confluence with the Athabasca River. The lake was well known to First Nations of...
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    the Athabasca River. Construction faltered and the A&GW political scandal ensued, and the line was rechartered in 1913 under the ownership of J.D. McArthur...
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    member of the Athabasca Tribal Council. Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council is based in Atikameg, Alberta with five members: The Loon River First Nation is...
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    Saskatchewan River and crossing the mountains at Athabasca Pass. This route was thereafter followed by the York Factory Express brigades. McLoughlin built...
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  • Alberta Highway 2 (category Athabasca, Alberta)
    Athabasca. The highway descends through the town at 50 km/h as 50 Street toward the Athabasca River valley, before turning west to parallel the river...
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    Ross, and Christine Tell.The NDP also reclaimed the far northern seat of Athabasca, a party stronghold which the party had unexpectedly lost to the Saskatchewan...
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  • the river Black traversed. The fur trader and explorer John McLeod re-located the river that Black discovered (the Kechika) and named it Black's River; however...
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    in a wetland system in the central foothills, between the McLeod River and Athabasca River, at an elevation of 1,065 m (3,494 ft) and has a surface area...
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    put more resources into the Athabasca and Mackenzie Rivers, with the fur brought down to Fort Edmonton along the Athabasca. The previous ten years had...
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