The Cline River is a short river in western
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
,
Canada
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. It flows from Pinto Lake and joins the
North Saskatchewan River
The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that flows from the Canadian Rockies continental divide east to central Saskatchewan, where it joins with the South Saskatchewan River to make up the Saskatchewan River. Its water flows event ...
at
Lake Abraham in west-central Alberta.
Geography
Pinto Lake is located north of Sunset Pass. The lake is fed from the glacial meltwater of
Minister Mountain,
Mount Coleman, and
Cirrus Mountain. The river then flows directly east, emptying into
Lake Abraham.
The river, as well as
Mount Cline
Mount Cline is a mountain in western Alberta, Canada, north of Saskatchewan Crossing, southwest of Nordegg.
The mountain is located in the North Saskatchewan River Valley, west of Resolute Mountain. It was named in 1898 by J. Norman Colli ...
and Cline Pass, are named for
Michel Klyne
Michel Klyne (2 July 1781 – 1868) was an employee of the North West Company and later the Hudson's Bay Company, serving as postmaster at Jasper House in the Rocky Mountains.
Early life
Klyne was born in the Province of Quebec in 1781, son ...
, also referred to as Michael Cline. Klyne was employed as a fur trader by the
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), originally the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson’s Bay, is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the oldest corporation in North America. It was the owner of the ...
and the
North West Company
The North West Company was a Fur trade in Canada, Canadian fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in the regions that later became Western Canada a ...
.
[Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1991). ''Place Names of Alberta, Volume 1''. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pg. 52]
Tributaries
*Pinto Lake
*Huntington Creek
*Cataract Creek
*McDonald Creek
*Waterfalls Creek
**
Michele Lakes
*Entry Creek
**
Lake of the Falls, Landslide Lake, Shoe Leather Creek
*Sentinel Creek
*Coral Creek
*O.D. Creek
Previously known
*Whitegoat River
*Mirliton River
See also
*
List of Alberta rivers
Alberta's rivers flow towards three different bodies of water, the Arctic Ocean, the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Alberta is located immediately east of the continental divide, so no rivers from Alberta reach the Pacific Ocean.
List of riv ...
References
Rivers of Alberta
North Saskatchewan River
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