DCHP-3

great bend

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an extensive curve in a river's course, used often as a point of reference.

Quotations

1801
From this lake the Saskatchiwine may be considered navigable to near its sources in the rocky mountains, for canoes, and without a carrying-place, making a great bend to Cumberland House, on Sturgeon Lake.
1929
Committee's Punch Bowl, still so known, is in reality a pair of tarns or mountain pools, one of which empties into Whirlpool River, the headstream of the Athabasca, the other into Wood River, a tributary of the Canoe River, which flows into the Columbia at the great bend.