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Slave River

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The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from the confluence of the Rivière des Rochers and Peace River in northeastern Alberta and empties into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. [1]

31 relations: Alberta, American white pelican, Arctic Ocean, Athabasca River, Athabaskan languages, Canada, Chipewyan, Cuthbert Grant, Dene, First Nations, Fort Resolution, Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Hay River, Northwest Territories, International scale of river difficulty, Lake Athabasca, List of rivers of Alberta, List of rivers of the Northwest Territories, Mackenzie River, Montreal Gazette, Northern Transportation Company, Northwest Territories, Peace River, Peace–Athabasca Delta, Rapids, Regina Leader-Post, Rivière des Rochers, Salt River (Canada), Slavey, Waterways, Alberta, Whitewater kayaking.

Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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American white pelican

The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is a large aquatic soaring bird from the order Pelecaniformes.

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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans.

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Athabasca River

The Athabasca River (French: rivière Athabasca) originates from the Columbia Glacier of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.

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Athabaskan languages

Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Dene, Athapascan, Athapaskan) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three groups of contiguous languages: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean).

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chipewyan

The Chipewyan (Denésoliné or Dënesųłı̨né, meaning "people of the barrens") are an aboriginal Dene ethnolinguistic group of the Athabaskan language family, whose ancestors are identified with the Taltheilei Shale archaeological tradition.

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Cuthbert Grant

Cuthbert Grant (1793 – July 15, 1854) was a prominent Métis leader of the early 19th century.

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Dene

The Dené people are an aboriginal group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal and Arctic regions of Canada.

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First Nations

In Canada, the First Nations (Premières Nations) are the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle.

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Fort Resolution

Fort Resolution (Deninu Kue "moose island") is a hamlet in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

Fort Smith (Thebacha "beside the rapids") is a town in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada.

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Great Slave Lake

The Great Slave Lake (Grand lac des Esclaves) is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at, and the tenth-largest lake in the world.

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Hay River, Northwest Territories

Hay River (Xátł’odehchee //), known as "the Hub of the North," is a town in the Northwest Territories, Canada, located on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, at the mouth of the Hay River.

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International scale of river difficulty

The international scale of river difficulty is an American system used to rate the difficulty of navigating a stretch of river, or a single (sometimes whitewater) rapid.

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Lake Athabasca

Lake Athabasca (French: lac Athabasca; from Woods Cree: aðapaskāw, " there are plants one after another") is located in the northwest corner of Saskatchewan and the northeast corner of Alberta between 58° and 60° N. The lake is 26% in Alberta and 74% in Saskatchewan.

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List of rivers of Alberta

Alberta's rivers flow towards three different bodies of water, the Arctic Ocean, the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

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List of rivers of the Northwest Territories

his is a list of rivers that are in whole or partly in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Mackenzie River

The Mackenzie River (Slavey language: Deh-Cho, big river or Inuvialuktun: Kuukpak, great river; fleuve (de) Mackenzie) is the longest river system in Canada, and has the second largest drainage basin of any North American river after the Mississippi River.

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Montreal Gazette

The Montreal Gazette, formerly titled The Gazette, is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, after three other daily English newspapers shut down at various times during the second half of the 20th century.

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Northern Transportation Company

Northern Transportation Company Limited (NTCL) was a marine transportation company operating primarily in the Mackenzie River watershed of the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta, and the Arctic Ocean using a fleet of diesel tug boats and shallow-draft barges.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (NT or NWT; French: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO; Athabaskan languages: Denendeh; Inuinnaqtun: Nunatsiaq; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Peace River

The Peace River (French: rivière de la Paix) is a -long river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta.

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Peace–Athabasca Delta

The Peace–Athabasca Delta, located in northeast Alberta, is the largest freshwater inland river delta in North America.

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Rapids

Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence.

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Regina Leader-Post

The Regina Leader-Post is the daily newspaper of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a member of the Postmedia Network.

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Rivière des Rochers

Rivière des Rochers (French for "River of Rocks") is a river in Alberta in the Peace–Athabasca Delta and Wood Buffalo National Park.

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Salt River (Canada)

Salt River is a river in Canada whose source is McNeil Lake in Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta.

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Slavey

The Slavey (also Slave and South Slavey) are a First Nations aboriginal people of the Dene group, indigenous to the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territories, and extending into northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta.

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Waterways, Alberta

Waterways is a locality within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in northern Alberta, Canada.

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Whitewater kayaking

Whitewater kayaking is the sport of paddling a kayak on a moving body of water, typically a whitewater river.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_River

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