Arctic Red River

noun

1. a river in the W Northwest Territories, Canada, flowing NW to the Mackenzie River. 310 miles (500 km) long.

Example Sentences

An uneventful day, during which the boat logged a great many miles in her steady progress, was passed, until at ten o’clock they tied up at the next to the last of the Hudson’s Bay posts on the Mackenzie River, known as Arctic Red River, located at sixty-seven degrees and thirty minutes north latitude.

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There were two trading-posts at Arctic Red River—the Hudson’s Bay Company post, and that of an independent trading company, both on top of the high bluff and reached by a stairway which ran part way up the face.

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On July 14th, shortly after we leave Arctic Red River, an open scow passes us, floating northward with the stream.

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It was at Arctic Red River, one hundred and ninety miles of river-travel since we cut the Polar Circle, that we came upon our first Eskimo, the true class-conscious Socialist of Karl Marx, the one man without a master on the American continent.

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A winter trail from Macpherson to Arctic Red River cuts no fewer than thirty-three small lakes.

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