Mistassini

American

[mis-tuh-see-nee] / ˌmɪs təˈsi ni /

noun

a lake in E Canada, in Quebec province. 840 sq. mi. (2,176 sq. km).

Mistassini British

/ ˌmɪstəˈsiːnɪ /

noun

a lake in E Canada, in N Quebec: the largest lake in the province; drains through the Rupert River into James Bay. Area: 2175 sq km (840 sq miles). Length: about 160 km (100 miles)

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Nearby is the Mistassini dam, which he had built with 15,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was an amiable picnic on the bank of the swift-flowing Mistassini.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Have those two Mistassini strangers who went north in June, got back yet?"

From Project Gutenberg

"The keenest eye among the hunters of the Mistassini could not uncover that trail; and known to God and us alone is the bloody mystery of the Deadman's Berg."

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Autumn found the voyageurs beyond the forested shores of the Saguenay and Lake St. John, ascending a current full of boiling cascades towards Lake Mistassini.

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