- a variation of Athabasca.
Athabaska
Britishnoun
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a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)
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a river in W Canada, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing northeast to Lake Athabaska. Length: 1230 km (765 miles)
Example Sentences
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The geological proving ground is the 30,000 sq. mi. of tar sands underlying northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in the vicinity of Lake Athabaska.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rainbow Lake pool may be larger than all of the reserves proven elsewhere in Alberta, outside the Athabaska tar sands.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the Athabaska sands yield their treasure, an estimated 300 billion bbl. of crude can be freed in that region alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1898 he went to British Columbia and worked in the mills of the Slocan Star and the Athabaska, then got a good position in a mill at Ymir.
From Time Magazine Archive
Between 1790 and 1792 made a survey of Lake Athabaska, and of the canoe route from Cumberland House to Great Slave Lake.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
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