Battle River is a river in central

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and western

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. It is a major tributary of the

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. The Battle River flows for and has a total drainage area of . The mean discharge is 10 m³/s at its mouth.

History

The river did not gain its current name until relatively recently. When Anthony Henday passed through the region in the 1750s, he did not mention a river with this name. But by 1793 Peter Fidler mentions arriving at the "Battle or Fighting River", likely so named because of the beginning of a period of rivalry between the

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(Cree and Assiniboine) and the

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Course

The headwaters of Battle River is Battle Lake in west-central Alberta, east of

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. The river

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s through Alberta eastward into Saskatchewan, where it discharges into the North Saskatchewan River at Battleford. Over its course, the river flows through Ponoka and by Hardisty and Fabyan within Alberta. Big Knife Provincial Park is situated on the south bank of the river west of Highway 855, approximately southwest of Forestburg. The Fabyan Trestle Bridge crosses the river.

Tributaries

*Sunny Creek *Wolf Creek *Pigeon Lake Creek *Stoney Creek * Pipestone Creek *Driedmeat Creek *Meeting Creek *Paintearth Creek * Castor Creek *Iron Creek *Ribstone Creek ''Battle Lake'', ''Samson Lake'', ''Driedmeat Lake'' and ''Big Knife Lake'' are formed along the river, and numerous other lakes (such as Pigeon Lake, ''Coal Lake'', ''Bittern Lake'', ''Vernon Lake'', ''Ernest Lake'', ''Soda Lake'') lie in the Battle River hydrographic basin.

References

External links

Battle River Watershed Alliance - designated Watershed Planning and Advisory CouncilFish Species of Saskatchewan
{{Authority control Rivers of Alberta North Saskatchewan River Tributaries of Hudson Bay

History

Course

Tributaries

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