North Saskatchewan River
The North Saskatchewan River ( French Rivière Saskatchewan Nord , German "Northern Saskatchewan River") is a river in western Canada with a total length of 1287 km.
It rises in the Rocky Mountains and flows through the province of Alberta to the center of the province of Saskatchewan , where it joins the South Saskatchewan River to form the Saskatchewan River .
The origin of the river is fed by glaciers in the Rocky Mountains. It is located 1,800 meters above sea level at the foot of the Saskatchewan Glacier in the Columbia Ice Field . The river cuts a deep and wide river valley into the prairie and, like most prairie rivers, carries a large amount of alluvial material with it. It unites with the South Saskatchewan River about 40 km east of Prince Albert .
The largest towns and cities on the North Saskatchewan River are Drayton Valley , Edmonton (the capital of Alberta), Fort Saskatchewan, and the Saddle Lake Indian Reservation . The river played an important role in the development of western Canada and has been a Canadian Heritage River since 1989 . Between the 1820s and 1840s, the York Factory Express , a Hudson's Bay Company trading route between the York Factory on Hudson Bay and Fort Vancouver in the Columbia District, followed the river for some stretches.
See also: List of the longest rivers on earth
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Individual evidence
- ↑ North Saskatchewan River at Rocky Mountain House gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
- ↑ North Saskatchewan River at Edmonton gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
- ^ North Saskatchewan River at the Deer Creek gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
- ↑ North Saskatchewan River at the Prince Albert gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
- ↑ The Rivers. Canadian Heritage Rivers System (CHRS), accessed March 23, 2019 .