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University of Winnipeg
University of Winnipeg at Winnipeg, Man., Canada; founded 1871. It achieved university status in 1967. It is controlled jointly by the provincial government of Manitoba and the United Church of Canada. It has faculties of arts and science and theology, an Institute of Urban Studies, and a Mennonite...
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University of Strathclyde
University of Strathclyde at Glasgow, Scotland; founded 1796 as Anderson's Institution. In 1886 its name was changed to Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, and in 1956 it became known as Royal College of Science and Technology. It was affiliated with the Univ. of Glasgow from 1913 until...
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Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University main campus at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1963, opened 1965. The Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver opened in 1989. Simon Fraser has faculties of arts, sciences, applied sciences, business administration, educ...
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Athabasca
Athabasca , river, 765 mi (1,231 km) long, rising in the Columbia snowfield of the Canadian Rockies near the Alta.-British Columbia line and flowing N through Jasper National Park, then NE and N across central Alta. to Lake Athabasca. It is the southernmost headstream of the Mackenzie River. Its chi...
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Athabasca Pass
Athabasca Pass 5,736 ft (1,748 m) high, W Alta. and E British Columbia, Canada, leading from the headwaters of the Athabasca River across the Continental Divide to the Columbia River. It was discovered by David Thompson, a Canadian fur trader, or one of his agents c.1811, and for the next 50 years ...
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sternum
sternum (breastbone) Flat, narrow bone extending from the base of the front of the neck to just below the diaphragm in the centre of the chest. The top attaches by ligaments to the collarbones and the centre part joins to the ribs by seven pairs of costal cartilages....
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Lesser Slave Lake
Lesser Slave Lake 60 mi (97 km) long and from 3 to 10 mi (4.8-16 km) wide, central Alta., Canada, NW of Edmonton. It drains E into the Athabasca River by the Lesser Slave River. In addition to commercial fishing, there is lumbering and farming on its shores.
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fibulare
fibulare In tetrapods, the posterior (i.e. closest to and articulating with the fibula) of the three tarsal (ankle) bones closest to the centre of the body (i.e. proximal)....
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Lake Athabasca
Lake Athabasca fourth largest lake of Canada, c.3,120 sq mi (8,100 sq km), c.200 mi (320 km) long and from 5 to 35 mi (8-56 km) wide, NE Alta., and SW Sask., at the edge of the Canadian Shield. A part of the Mackenzie River system, the lake receives the Athabasca River from the south and drains N i...
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Fort McMurray
Fort McMurray town (1991 pop. 34,706), NE Alta., Canada, on the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers. Since the beginning of the mining of Alberta's oil sands in 1964, the town's population has grown from 1,200. It is an important river port and transshipment point for the Northwest Territories.
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