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    Skeena River

    Skeena River, 580 km long, rises in the northern interior of BC and flows generally SW, draining about 54 000 km2, to meet the Pacific Ocean at Chatham Sound south of Prince Rupert. 

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    Slave River

    Slave River, 415 km long with an estimated mean annual flow rate in excess of 4000 cubic metres per second, connects the PEACE RIVER and the drainage from lakes CLAIRE and ATHABASCA to GREAT SLAVE LAKE, forming the short upper reaches of the Slave- MACKENZIE RIVER system in the Northwest Territories. It has a sinuous, often multichannelled, course traversing the flat, extensively glaciated Archean granitic terrain of the Canadian SHIELD and is currently used almost...

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    Soper River

    The Soper River winds southwards 108 km through the tundra-covered hills of southern Baffin Island before emptying into Soper Lake, a brackish water body, and then directly into Hudson Strait near the community of Kimmirut, Nunavut.

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    Souris River

    Souris River, about 720 km long, rises in the Yellow Grass marshes N of Weyburn, Sask, flows SE past Estevan and wanders S across the N Dakota border before entering Manitoba.

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    St Clair River

    St Clair River, 64 km long, flows in a southerly direction, connecting Lake HURON in the N with Lake ST CLAIR in the S, and forms the international boundary between Canada and the US. Its northern portion has an average width of 0.8 km and depth of 8-18 m.

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    St Croix River

    St Croix River, 121 km long, rises in the Chiputneticook Lakes and flows SE to Passamaquoddy Bay, forming part of the border between NB and Maine. It was discovered (1604) by the French, and de MONTS built the first settlement in Acadia on Ile Sainte-Croix (now St Croix I) near the river's mouth.

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    St. Lawrence Seaway

    The St Lawrence Seaway (Great Lakes Waterway) is the system of locks, canals and channels linking the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River with the Atlantic Ocean. 

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    St Marys River (NS)

    St Marys River, one of the largest rivers in Nova Scotia, flows into the Atlantic Ocean at a point 190 km E of Halifax.

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    Thames River

    The Thames River begins in a swampy area of southwestern Ontario and meanders quietly for 273 km past the cities of Woodstock, London and Chatham-Kent to empty into Lake St. Clair.

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    The St Lawrence Seaway

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. When the first sod was turned near Cornwall, Ont., August 10, 1954, it was not so much the beginning of the great ​St Lawrence Seaway as a continuation of centuries of dreams.

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    Thelon River

    Thelon River, 904 km long, issues from Lynx Lake, east of Great Slave Lake, NWT.

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    Thompson River

    Thompson River, 489 km long, rises in the Cariboo district of the Rocky Mountains and flows south as the North Thompson River. 

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    Toronto Feature: Carrying Place Trail, Humber River

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Highland Creek

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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    Toronto Feature: Humber Marshes

    This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated.

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