DCHP-3

Athabasca

[< Algonk.: Cree athapaskaw grass or reeds here and there]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

the general region drained by the upper Athabasca River, a vast area important to the early fur trade.

Quotations

1789
They were of a small kind, and much inferior in size to those that frequent the vicinity of Athabasca.
1956
Colin is going to get brigades ready to go right into the Athabasca.
2n.

Fort Athabasca.

Quotations

1860
. . . while traversing the whole distance between Athabasca and Fort Pelly Mr. Christie did not meet a single Indian.
1929
One had been in British Columbia, the other at Athabasca.
3n.

one of the Northwest Territories created in 1882, now forming part of Alberta, of Saskatchewan, and of Manitoba.

Quotations

1882
Athabasca takes in the celebrated Peace River districts.
1904
The fourth provisional district of Athabaska, like Mackenzie, Ungava, and Franklin, is said to be "unorganized," through not being represented in the territorial assembly.