Athabasca
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Athabasca is an anglicized version of the Cree
name for Lake Athabasca
in Canada
, āthap-āsk-ā-w , meaning “grass or reeds here and there”.
Related to the lake are several other geographical and administrative features called Athabasca. Most places named Athabasca are found in Alberta
, Canada
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Cree language
Cree is an Algonquian language spoken by approximately 117,000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories and Alberta to Labrador, making it the aboriginal language with the highest number of speakers in Canada. It is also spoken in the U.S. state of Montana...
name for Lake Athabasca
Lake Athabasca
Lake Athabasca is located in the northwest corner of Saskatchewan and the northeast corner of Alberta between 58° and 60° N.-History:The name in the Dene language originally referred only to the large delta formed by the confluence the Athabasca River at the southwest corner of the lake...
in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, āthap-āsk-ā-w , meaning “grass or reeds here and there”.
Related to the lake are several other geographical and administrative features called Athabasca. Most places named Athabasca are found in Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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- Mount AthabascaMount AthabascaMount Athabasca is located in the Columbia Icefield of Jasper National Park in Canada. The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie, who made the first ascent on August 18 of that year...
(3491 metres (11,453 ft)), a mountain in Jasper National Park, Canada- Athabasca GlacierAthabasca GlacierThe Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies. The glacier currently recedes at a rate of per year and has receded more than in the past 125 years and lost over half of its volume...
, a glacier in Jasper National Park, Canada
- Athabasca Glacier
- Athabasca RiverAthabasca RiverThe Athabasca River originates from the Columbia Glacier of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada...
, river in Alberta, Canada- Athabasca FallsAthabasca FallsAthabasca Falls is a waterfall in Jasper National Park on the upper Athabasca River, approximately 30 kilometres south of the townsite of Jasper, Alberta, and just west of the Icefields Parkway...
, waterfalls on the Athabasca River - Peace-Athabasca DeltaPeace-Athabasca DeltaThe Peace–Athabasca Delta is a large freshwater, inland delta in northeastern Alberta located where the Peace and Athabasca Rivers join the Slave River at the western end of Lake Athabasca.-Conservation :...
– Delta of the Peace River, Athabasca River, near Lake Athabasca
- Athabasca Falls
- Athabasca Tar Sands – oil producing region in Alberta, Canada
- Lake AthabascaLake AthabascaLake Athabasca is located in the northwest corner of Saskatchewan and the northeast corner of Alberta between 58° and 60° N.-History:The name in the Dene language originally referred only to the large delta formed by the confluence the Athabasca River at the southwest corner of the lake...
, large lake in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada - Athabasca PassAthabasca PassAthabasca Pass is a high mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies. It is the headwaters of the Whirlpool River, a tributary of the Athabasca River.The pass lies between Mount Brown and McGillivray Ridge...
, a mountain pass in Jasper National Park - Athabasca VallesAthabasca VallesAthabasca Valles is an outflow channel on Mars, cut into its surface by catastrophic flooding. It is one of the youngest known of these structures, probably forming only in the geologically recent past of Mars. The flood produced distinctive "teardrop" landforms similar to those found in the...
, a feature on the surface of the planet Mars
Administrative features:
- Athabasca, AlbertaAthabasca, AlbertaAthabasca is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It lies north of Edmonton on Highway 2, on the banks of the Athabasca River. It is the centre of Athabasca County. Until 1913 it was known as Athabasca Landing.- History :...
, town in Canada, formerly (1880–1914) named Athabasca Landing - Athabasca County, Alberta
- District of AthabascaDistrict of AthabascaThe District of Athabasca is a former district of Canada. Its northern boundary was the current southern boundary of the Northwest Territories and extended south to 55° north latitude. The westernmost part is now part of Alberta and most of the eastern part is now in Saskatchewan. The very...
, former district of the North-West Territory - Athabaska (electoral district)Athabaska (electoral district)Athabaska was a federal electoral district Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1968.This riding was created as "Athabaska" in 1924 from parts of Battle River, Edmonton East and Edmonton West ridings...
, a former federal electoral district (1925–1968) in Alberta - Athabasca (electoral district), a federal electoral district (since 1968) in Alberta
- Athabasca (provincial electoral district)Athabasca (provincial electoral district)Athabasca was a provincial electoral district covering north east Alberta, Canada.The riding, was created in 1905 when Alberta first became a province...
, former provincial electoral district in Alberta - Athabasca (former Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)Athabasca (former Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)Athabasca was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. This constituency was created before the 1908 general election and was dissolved before the 1917 general election...
- Athabasca (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)Athabasca (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)Athabasca is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located in the extreme northwest corner of the province. The major industries are tourism, mineral extraction, forestry, commercial fishing and trapping...
- Athabasca UniversityAthabasca UniversityAthabasca University is a Canadian university in Athabasca, Alberta. It is an accredited research institution which also offers distance education courses and programs. Courses are offered primarily in English with some French offerings. Each year, 32,000 students attend the university. It offers...
, distance learning university in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada- Athabasca University Students' UnionAthabasca University Students' UnionAthabasca University Students' Union is the students' union of Athabasca University, in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada. AU has satellite campuses in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta...
- Athabasca University Students' Union
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- Athabaskan languagesAthabaskan languagesAthabaskan or Athabascan is a large group of indigenous peoples of North America, located in two main Southern and Northern groups in western North America, and of their language family...
, a language family indigenous to North America - Athabaska HeraldAthabaska HeraldAthabaska Herald of Arms is the title of one of the officers of arms at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa. Like the other heralds at the Authority, the name is derived from that of a Canadian river. The design of the badge of office of Athabaska Herald of Arms is based on the floral...
, one of the officers of arms at the Canadian Heraldic Authority - Athabasca (novel)Athabasca (novel)Athabasca is a novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1980. As with the novel Night Without End, it depicts adventure, sabotage and murder in the unforgiving Arctic environment...
, novel by Alistair MacLean - Athabasca, a character in Terry Brooks's Shannara series
- SS Athabasca, a steamship launched in Scotland in 1883 and put into service on the Great Lakes, along with SS Alberta and SS AlgomaSS AlgomaThe Algoma was a steamer built in 1883; it was sunk off the shore of Mott Island near Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1885 and the remains are still on the lake bottom...
- Any of three ships named HMCS AthabaskanHMCS AthabaskanSeveral Canadian naval ships have been named HMCS Athabaskan. , a Tribal class destroyer, commissioned in 1943 and torpedoed in the English Channel on 29 April 1944. , later renumbered , was a Tribal Class destroyer commissioned in 1947....
- MS Fort Athabasca, a Canadian-owned, British-registered merchant ship bombed 2 December 1943 during World War II
- AthabascaiteAthabascaiteAthabascaite is a member of the copper selenide minerals, and forms with other copper selenides. It was first discovered by S. Kaiman in 1949 while he was researching radioactive materials around Lake Athabasca. Kaiman was conducting research near Uranium City, Saskatchewan where mass amounts of...
, a mineral - Athabaska Airways, earlier name of Transwest AirTranswest Airthumb|Transwest Air Terminal at [[Stony Rapids Airport]]thumb|Transwest Air Beech 1900D C-GTWG at [[Regina International Airport]]thumb|Transwest Air Bell 206B helicopter at Regina International Airport...
See also
- Arthabaska (disambiguation), the name of several geographic features in Quebec, shares the same root