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Nelson River
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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A river of Keewatin district, Canada, discharging the waters of Lake Winnipeg in a north-easterly direction into Hudson Bay. It drains an area of 360,000 sq. m. and, including its tributary the Saskatchewan, is 1450 m. long. It is navigable for small steamers for a distance of about 80 m., after which it is unnavigable except for canoes. It has a total fall between the lake and sea of 710 ft. Here its chief tributary is the Burntwood. Norway House at its source and York Factory at its mouth are important stations of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Nelson River'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/n/nelson-river.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Nelson River'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/n/nelson-river.html. 1910.
