Etzikom Coulee is a

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located in

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. The waterway was formed as a glacial spillway channel at the end of the last

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Course

The Etzikom Coulee begins northeast of the town of

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, and makes its way southeast of the Hamlet of Wrentham, after that it passes by the Hamlet of Skiff into the

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, then southeast of the Village of Foremost as well as the Hamlet of Nemiskam, and finally ending south of the Hamlet of Etzikom at

Pakowki Lake Pakowki Lake is an endorheic lake in Alberta, Canada located south of Etzikom, Alberta and not far north is the former town site of Pakowki which may have received its name from the lake. It is located in the prairies of southern Alberta, at an ...

, the largest lake in

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References

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