Lesser Slave Lake

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1. a lake in central Alberta, Canada, draining E via the Lesser Slave River to the Athabasca River. 451 sq. mi. (1,168 sq. km).

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Lesser Slave Lake

He got a job as a recreation director in Slave Lake, Alta., and soon took over as editor of the weekly paper, the Lesser Slave Lake Scope.

From Time Magazine Archive

Union Oil Co. has hit an oil zone 4,797 ft. deep, 220 miles north of Edmonton not far from Lesser Slave Lake.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a historic gamble, the two companies decided to drill near Lesser Slave Lake, 450 miles to the south, hoping to find a heavy cap of nonporous rock that had trapped the oil in pools.

From Time Magazine Archive

She remembered the old fort at the south-east end of Lesser Slave Lake, and Waupístagwon, "The White Head," as she called him, namely, Mr. Shaw of the famous finger-nail.

From Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 by Charles Mair

We are assembled at Grouard on Lesser Slave Lake, the missionary post that was built here forty-nine years ago and named after the hero of this day.

From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck