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Quesnel Lake / k w ɪ ˈ n ɛ l / is a glacial lake or fjord in British Columbia, Canada, and is the major tributary of the Fraser River.With a maximum depth of 511 m (1,677 ft), it is claimed to be the deepest fjord lake in the world, [1] the deepest lake in BC, and the third-deepest lake in North America, after Great Slave Lake and Crater Lake.
The Fraser River is known for the fishing of white sturgeon, all five species of Pacific salmon (chinook, coho, chum, pink, sockeye), as well as steelhead trout. The Fraser River is also the largest producer of salmon in Canada. [25] A typical white sturgeon catch can average about 500 pounds (230 kg). [26]
Rivers on this list shown on a map of Canada The Mackenzie River is the longest stream in Canada if measured from its mouth on the Beaufort Sea to the headwaters of the Finlay River, a major upstream tributary. The main stem, a much shorter segment of the Mackenzie, is marked in dark blue.
Drainage basins of Canada. The major Canadian drainage basins are the following: [1] [2] Arctic Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Hudson Bay including James Bay and Ungava Bay; Atlantic Ocean including the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Drainage basin; Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River basin
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...
The river has been called a variety of names by local First Nations. Beginning in the 16th century, French explorers visited what is now Canada and gave the river names such as the Grand fleuve de Hochelaga and the Grande rivière du Canada, [8] where fleuve and rivière are two French words (fleuve being a river that flows into the sea).
The Ottawa River drains into the Lake of Two Mountains and the St. Lawrence River at Montreal. The river is 1,271 km (790 mi) long; it drains an area of 146,300 km 2 (56,500 sq mi), 65 per cent in Quebec and the rest in Ontario, with a mean discharge of 1,950 m 3 /s (69,000 cu ft/s). [1]
The river discharges more than 325 cubic kilometres (78 cu mi) of water each year, accounting for roughly 11% of the total river flow into the Arctic Ocean. [32] [33] The river is frozen for most of the year, with the ice typically breaking up by early to mid-May in the south, and late May-early June in the north. [34]
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