The La Salle is a river in
Manitoba
Manitoba ( ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population o ...
, Canada, with its source near
Portage la Prairie
Portage la Prairie () is a small city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. As of 2016, the population was 13,304 and the land area of the city was .
Portage la Prairie is approximately west of Winnipeg, along the Trans-Canada Hig ...
and terminating in the
Red River in
Saint Norbert
Norbert of Xanten, O. Praem (c. 1075 – 6 June 1134) (Xanten-Magdeburg), also known as Norbert Gennep, was a bishop of the Catholic Church, founder of the Premonstratensian order of canons regular, and is venerated as a saint. Norbert was c ...
(southern
Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...
). The La Salle River flows mainly through agricultural land. It is a slow-moving, meandering prairie river with variable depth. It is the primary river that flows throughout most of the rural municipality of
Macdonald.
On older maps, the river is named ''la Rivière Sale'', ''la Rivière Salle'', ''Salle River'', or ''Stinking River''.
[Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin et Louis Rousselet, ''Nouveau dictionnaire de géographie universelle'', Hachette, Paris, 1892, p.514.]
See also
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List of rivers of Manitoba
References
External links
Rivers of Manitoba
Tributaries of Hudson Bay
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