Salt River is a river in
Canada
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whose source is McNeil Lake
in
Wood Buffalo National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at . It is in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories. Larger in area than Switzerland, it is the second-largest national park in the world. The park was estab ...
in northern
Alberta
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. It enters the
Slave River
The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from the confluence of the and Peace River in northeastern Alberta and runs into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The river's name is thought to derive from the name for the Slavey g ...
north of
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
Fort Smith ( "beside the rapids") is a town in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. It is located in the southeastern portion of the Northwest Territories, on the Slave River and adjacent to the Alberta border along ...
.
The main tributaries are Brine Creek (mouth coordinates ) and Loop Creek (mouth coordinates ).
Salt River settlement
At the mouth of the river is a village known as Salt River. It was settled in the latter part of the 18th century.
Francois Beaulieu (1771–1872) was its most notable resident. A
Roman Catholic
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mission was in the village from 1850
until 1876 when it moved to Fort Smith.
Salt deposits were collected from the banks during the
fur trade
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era.
See also
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List of rivers of Alberta
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 ...
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List of rivers of the Northwest Territories
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References
External links
The Salt Plains (Wood Buffalo National Park)Salt River (Wood Buffalo National Park)
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Rivers of Alberta
Rivers of the Northwest Territories