Smoky River

American  

noun

1. a river in W central Alberta, Canada, flowing N to the Peace River. 250 miles (402 km) long.

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Example Sentences

Its assets, in west-central Alberta’s Smoky River Coalfield, contain an estimated 346 million tonnes of coal resources, its statement yesterday said.

From BusinessWeek

It holds leases covering more than 22,000 hectares containing about 346 million metric tons of coal in the Smoky River Coalfield in the province, Grande Cache said in the statement.

From BusinessWeek

The old hotel, with its Doric columns grimed with years of smoky river fogs, was dark, and smelled of soot; and the manners of the waiters and chambermaids would have set Eleanor's teeth on edge, except that she was so absorbed in the thrill of being back under the roof which had sheltered them in those first days of bliss.

From Project Gutenberg

He had gone along the valley of the Smoky River, whereas the course of the loose animal had been along the chord of a wide arc made by the valley of that stream, a course much shorter and easier to traverse, as it evaded a part of that rough country known as the breaks of the Smoky, a series of gullies and "draws" running from the table-land down to the deep little river bed.

From Project Gutenberg

Why, they tellin' me, some folks over ontoe that ther Smoky River, las' fall, they gethered 'bout hate er peck o' sour green crabapples, an' they trade hate o' them ornery things off fer a beef critter—'deed they did.

From Project Gutenberg