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(Encyclopedia)Back, river, c.600 mi (970 km) long, rising in lakes, Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing northeast through Nunavut across the tundra to Chantry Inlet. Numerous lakes lie along its course. It i...

Sainte Agathe des Monts

(Encyclopedia)Sainte Agathe des Monts săNtägätˈ dā môN [key], town (1991 pop. 5,452), S Que., Canada, on the North River, NW of Montreal. It is a resort center. ...

Sainte Thérèse

(Encyclopedia)Sainte Thérèse săNt tārĕzˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 24,158), S Que., Canada, on the St. Lawrence River, NW of Montreal. It has factories producing automobile parts, pianos, furniture, plywood, and...

Chaudière

(Encyclopedia)Chaudière shōdyĕrˈ [key], river, 115 mi (185 km) long, rising in Lac Mégantic, SE Que., Canada, near the Maine-Que. boundary and flowing generally N to the St. Lawrence River opposite the city of...

Lièvre

(Encyclopedia)Lièvre lēāˈvrə [key], river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in Kempt Lake, S Que., Canada, and flowing generally SW into the Ottawa River near Buckingham. Parts of it are navigable. There are fiv...

Peribonca

(Encyclopedia)Peribonca pĕrĭbŏngˈkə [key], river, c.280 mi (450 km) long, rising in the Otish Mts., central Que., Canada, and flowing S through Peribonca Lake to Lake St. John. It is an important source of hyd...

Turner Valley

(Encyclopedia)Turner Valley, village (1991 pop. 1,352), SW Alta., Canada, at the foot of the Rocky Mts., on the Sheep River, SW of Calgary. It is in the center of the Turner Valley oil and natural gas fields, opene...

Monmouth, town, Wales

(Encyclopedia)Monmouth, Welsh Trefynwy, town (1981 pop. 7,379), Monmouthshire, SE Wales, at the junction of the Monnow and Wye rivers. The town is a popular tourist and agricultural center with flourishing cattle a...

Banff

(Encyclopedia)Banff bămf, bănf [key], town, SW Alta., Canada, in the Rocky Mts., on the Bow River and the ...

Athabasca Pass

(Encyclopedia)Athabasca Pass, 5,736 ft (1,748 m) high, W Alta. and E British Columbia, Canada, leading from the headwaters of the Athabasca River across the Continental Divide to the Columbia River. It was discover...