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13 unusual facts about Assiniboine River


Assiniboine River

The Souris River is the primary tributary contributing flow to the Assiniboine in this reach.

The floor of this spillway valley provides a natural floodplain for the river and the valley provides a significant storage volume making the construction of the Shellmouth Dam near Russell both technically and economically viable.

A Manitoba-wide state of emergency was declared in the wake of one in three hundred-year floods on the Assiniboine River at Brandon.

The Assiniboine winds its way east eventually joining the Red River at "The Forks" in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Tributaries include the Whitesand River which joins it near Kamsack, Saskatchewan, the Souris River which joins it near Wawanesa, the Birdtail River which joins at the Birdtail Sioux First Nation, the Little Saskatchewan which joins west of Brandon and the Qu'Appelle River which joins near the site of historic Fort Ellice.

Upstream of Brandon, the main stem of the river and its most important tributaries flow within a very large valley.

Bruce Park

The park is bordered to the south by the Assiniboine River, to the east by Douglas Park Road, to the west by Deer Lodge Place, and to the north by Portage Avenue.

Fort des Épinettes

Fort des Épinettes was a trading post or posts on the Assiniboine River from 1768 to 1811.

Leroy Goldsworthy

Goldsworthy along with fellow Black Hawk Rosario Couture were charged with the task of identifying the body of teammate Jack Leswick after his body was pulled from the Assiniboine River in August 1934.

Manitoba Highway 26

PTH 26 serves as an alternative scenic route between Portage La Prairie and Winnipeg as it closely follows the Assiniboine River which flows south of the highway.

Manitoba Provincial Road 459

The road travels in very close proximity to the Assiniboine River for most of its length, and offers a very scenic alternative route for people travelling in to Brandon as compared to the Trans-Canada Highway or PTH 1A.

Spruce Woods Provincial Park

This region is not a true desert, but the remnant of a sandy delta of the Assiniboine River, from a time when it ran into glacial Lake Agassiz.

Winnipeg School Division

The South District serves the part of the division that is south of the Assiniboine River, excluding River-Osborne and including South Portage.


2011 Souris River flood

In early May, flash flooding occurred between the Souris River source and the Assiniboine River, as Kingsley No. 124, Saskatchewan saw its worst flooding in over 50 years.

Charleswood, Winnipeg

It is located in the southwestern part of the city, and is bordered by the Assiniboine River to the north, the Rural Municipality of Macdonald to the south, the Rural Municipality of Headingley on the west and the Assiniboine Park and Forest to the east.

Marie-Anne Gaboury

They went first to the area near the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers near what would later become the Red River Colony, and, eventually, modern Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg South Centre

It generally consisted of the part of the city west of the Red River and north of the Assiniboine River.