Winnipegosis

American  

[win-uh-pi-goh-sis] / ˌwɪn ə pɪˈgoʊ sɪs /

noun

1. Lake, a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba, W of Lake Winnipeg. 2,086 sq. mi. (5,405 sq. km).

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Winnipegosis British  

/ ˌwɪnɪpəˈɡəʊsɪs /

noun

1. a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba. Area: 5400 sq km (2086 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

We had hoped to reach the upper part of the lake by means of a steamer, but found this impossible, and were therefore obliged to go on sleds to our first hunting ground—a moose country to the south of the head waters of the Fisher River, between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Winnipegosis.

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Portions of the country between Lakes Winnipeg and Winnipegosis, visited by our party, are as flat as the flattest portions of New Jersey, and for great distances nothing could be more level except possibly a billiard table.

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Lake Winnipeg and lakes Winnipegosis and Manitoba, which receive the waters of the Saskatchewan and Assiniboine from the west, and discharge through the Nelson River to Hudson Bay.

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All of these are rapid and shallow, affording navigation only for canoes; but the largest of them, Nelson river, drains the great Manitoban lakes, Winnipeg, Winnipegosis and Manitoba, which are frequented by steamers, and receive the waters of Lake-of-the-Woods, Lake Seul and many others emptying into Winnipeg river from Ontario; of Red river coming in from the United States to the south; and of the southern parts of the Rocky Mountains and the western prairie provinces drained by the great Saskatchewan river.

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The first link in this transcontinental railway dates back to 1896, when construction was commenced on the line from Gladstone towards Lake Winnipegosis.

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