Grand Rapids (Athabasca River)
Grand Rapids is found 427.4 kilometres (265.6 mi) from the mouth of the Athabasca River.[1]
The rapids are found on both sides of an Island in the River.[2] The river drops 100 feet (30 m) over 1 mile (1.6 km) at the rapids.[3]
Rough work
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "Ice Jam Formation and Release Events on the Athabasca River, 2007" (PDF). CGU HS Committee on River Ice Processes and the Environment. 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
- ↑
"Peace River and Tributaries" (PDF). Queen's University. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
One hundred and sixty-five miles below the Landing, Grand Rapids are reached. This is the rapid of the river, and partakes more of the nature of a cataract than of a rapid. In the middle of the channel there is an island, over which the Hudson's Bay Company have constructed a tramway on which to transport the outfits for all the northern posts.
- ↑ Ted Barris. Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited. Dundurn Press 2015. p. 72. ISBN 9781459732100. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ↑ "Hudson's Bay Post 1877 1914".
- ↑ "Historical Review: Athabasca River".
- ↑ "Grand Rapids Wildland Provincial Park".
- ↑ "The Barren Lands Collection: Athabasca River, above Grand Rapids".