Canada : its history, productions and natural resources . her con-siderable rivers of this portion of Canada. There are many other very largeRivers of the rivers besides these. In the Terri- West and North, tories and Manitoba are the Macken-zie River, 2,400 miles in length; theCopper Mine and Great Fish Rivers, which flow into theArctic Ocean; the Saskatchewan River, 1,500 miles; theRed River and its tributary, the Assiniboine, which flowinto Lake Winnipeg, discharging thence through theNelson River and the Churchill; the Flaye and otherrivers, which flow into the Hudson Bay, draining into it
Canada : its history, productions and natural resources . her con-siderable rivers of this portion of Canada. There are many other very largeRivers of the rivers besides these. In the Terri- West and North, tories and Manitoba are the Macken-zie River, 2,400 miles in length; theCopper Mine and Great Fish Rivers, which flow into theArctic Ocean; the Saskatchewan River, 1,500 miles; theRed River and its tributary, the Assiniboine, which flowinto Lake Winnipeg, discharging thence through theNelson River and the Churchill; the Flaye and otherrivers, which flow into the Hudson Bay, draining into itthe waters of an area estimated at 370,000 square miles. In British Columbia are the Eraser River and theColumbia, 1,200 miles; and in the Yukon District is theYukon River, which carries off the surplus waters of agreat tract of country in Canada before flowing into thesea on the western side of Alaska. Connected with these and other rivers are lakes oflarge size. Lake of the Woods, 1,500 square miles;Lake Manitoba, 1,900; Great Bear Lake, 11,200; Great. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 3 Slave Lake, io,ioo; Athabasca, 4,400; Winnipeg Lake,9,400; Winnepegosis, 2,030. The principal mountains of Canada arein the West, running parallel with the MountainsPacific Coast. This Can:idian cordillera of the the greater part of British Colum-bia, and the whole of the Yukon Territory. Theparallel ranges are above four hundred miles in width,or more than twice as broad as England at its point ofgreatest breadth. The Coast range runs along thePacific; the Rockies proper lie to the east. Betweenthem are the Selkirks, the Gold, the Cariboo, the Cassiarand other ranges. The principal peak in Canada isMount Robson, 13,700 feet high. On the eastern side of Canada, twothousand miles nearer to Europe than the EasternRockies, is the Appalachian range. While Elevation,of considerable height in the United States,they are low and inconsiderable in that portion of Canadaknown as the Gaspe Peninsula. There
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