Saint Croix (river)

Saint Croix 1 River, 75 mi (121 km) long, rising in the Chiputneticook Lakes and flowing SE to Passamaquoddy Bay, forming part of the U.S.-Canada border; navigable to Calais, Maine. The river is used for power and to float logs downstream. In 1604, French explorer Samuel de Champlain helped establish a colony on St. Croix (Dochet) Island (now an international historic site) near the river's mouth; it was abandoned in 1605. 2 River, 164 mi (264 km) long, rising in the lake district of NW Wis. and flowing generally S to the Mississippi River at Prescott, Wis.; forms part of the Wis.-Minn. line. The Dalles, a scenic gorge, is located in Interstate Park. A hydroelectric plant at St. Croix Falls supplies power to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.

Saint Croix, Canada, USA, US Virgin Islands 1. Canada‐USA: a river named by Jacques Cartier^† who saw it on Holy Cross Day (14 September) in 1535.2. US Virgin Islands: an island named Santa Cruz ‘Holy Cross’ by Christopher Columbus^† when he visited it in 1493. The French West India Company bought the island in 1665 from the Knights of Malta. It became a French colony in 1674 when it was given the present French form of its name. In 1733 the King of Denmark bought the island and Danish possession was retained until 1917 when it was sold to the USA.