Chaba River (Canada)

Chaba River

Chaba River and Chaba Icefield
Country  Canada ( Alberta)
Basin
Main source Chaba Icefield
1,597 m (5,240 ft)
52°14′49″N 117°40′52″W / 52.24694°N 117.68111°W / 52.24694; -117.68111
River mouth Athabasca River
1,380 m (4,530 ft)
52°25′05″N 117°39′38″W / 52.41806°N 117.66056°W / 52.41806; -117.66056Coordinates: 52°25′05″N 117°39′38″W / 52.41806°N 117.66056°W / 52.41806; -117.66056

The Chaba River is a short river in western Alberta, Canada. It flows from the Canadian Rockies, and joins the Athabasca River.[1]

The Chaba River is a major tributary of the Athabasca. The Chaba is fed by the glacial melt originating in the Chaba Icefield, comprising Chaba Peak, as well as Listening and Sundial Peaks. A small glacier on Mount Quincy also contributes to the Chaba. The river was given its name by A. P. Coleman, a geologist born in Eastern Canada in 1852.[2] He stated there "were endless beaver dams and trees" along the river, and named it after the Stoney Indian word for beavers."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Mussio Ventures. Central Alberta Backroad Mapbook. Burnaby: Backroad Mapbooks (2002)
  2. ↑ Coleman, A.P. (1895). "Mount Brown and the Sources of the Athabasca". The Geographical Journal. Royal Geographical Society. 5: 53–61. doi:10.2307/1773875. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
  3. ↑ Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1991). Place Names of Alberta, Volume 1. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pg. 45

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