10 Facts About North Saskatchewan River

North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that flows from the Canadian Rockies continental divide east to central Saskatchewan, where it joins with the South Saskatchewan River to make up the Saskatchewan River.

Saskatchewan River system is the largest shared between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Bighorn Dam constricts the north end of Abraham Lake, where the North Saskatchewan emerges to track eastward to Rocky Mountain House.

About 30 kilometres downstream of Prince Albert, the North Saskatchewan River joins the South Saskatchewan River at Saskatchewan River Forks to become the Saskatchewan River.

Bridge River Ash is in the vicinity of the North Saskatchewan River, which erupted from the Mount Meager massif in southwestern British Columbia about 2350 years ago.

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North Saskatchewan River is shown on a Hudson's Bay Company map from 1760, labeled as the Beaver North Saskatchewan River.

The River Valley Alliance, a non-profit organization composed of seven municipalities which border the North Saskatchewan River, is currently working to create a continuous trail network from the town of Devon to the city of Fort Saskatchewan – a total of 100 kilometres .

North Saskatchewan River has always been a major trade route from Hudson Bay and central Canada across the Canadian Prairies to the Canadian Rockies.

North Saskatchewan witnessed a lively, although short-lived, era of steamboat shipping during the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s.

The reservoir would have affected municipal water works in the City of Fort North Saskatchewan River, was likely to inundate part of the Saddle Lake Indian reserve, and would have flooded a number of oil and natural gas fields in the area.