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churchill river

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1

A major river in central Canada that originates in east-central Alberta and flows eastward for about 1,609 kilometers across Saskatchewan and Manitoba before emptying into Hudson Bay at the port of Churchill.


2

The longest river in Atlantic Canada, flowing eastward for about 856 kilometers from the Smallwood Reservoir in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, through Lake Melville into the Atlantic Ocean, noted for the Churchill Falls hydroelectric facility.

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