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Qu'Appelle

American  
[kwuh-pel] / kwəˈpɛl /

noun

  1. a river in S Saskatchewan and SW Manitoba, Canada, flowing E to the Assiniboine River. 270 miles (434 km) long.


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This photo dated around 1900 shows a First Nations elder with children at the Qu’Appelle Indian Industrial School in Lebret, in what is now Saskatchewan.

From New York Times Jul. 5, 2021

I should sit on the left side of the scenic car, a prime spot to view the sweeping Qu’Appelle Valley.

From Washington Post Apr. 13, 2017

Wild Oats In Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, a Persian cat puzzled its owner by yowling, squirming.

From Time Magazine Archive

Six hundred feet below the level of the plain the grassy slopes of the Qu'Appelle Valley bowled to the blue lakes.

From Deep Furrows by Hopkins Moorhouse

Alexander Macdonell proceeded to his winter quarters at Fort Qu'Appelle, on the river of the same name which empties into the upper Assiniboine.

From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Louis Aubrey Wood

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