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15 unusual facts about Red River of the North


Assiniboine River

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

KVLY-TV

The current call sign, adopted in 1995, represents the station's slogan, "The Valley's Choice for Local News," as it serves the communities along the Red River of the North and its tributaries.

La Salle River

The La Salle is a river in Manitoba, with its source near Portage La Prairie and terminating in the Red River in Saint Norbert (southern Winnipeg).

Minnesota State Highway 171

State Highway 171 serves as a short east–west route between U.S. 75, St. Vincent, the Red River, and Pembina, ND.

Minnesota State Highway 175

The Highway 175 / Highway 5 bridge crossing the Red River at the state line was not completed until the late 1960s.

Highway 175 serves as an east–west route between Lake Bronson, Hallock, the Red River, and Joliette, ND.

Minnesota State Highway 317

Minnesota State Highway 317 is a short highway in northwest Minnesota, which runs from North Dakota Highway 17 at the North Dakota state line, at the Red River, and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with Minnesota State Highway 220 in Fork Township.

The short route of Highway 317 is located between the Red River and the Snake River.

North Dakota Highway 17

North Dakota Highway 17 (ND 17) is an east–west highway stretching from just east of Barton to the Minnesota border at the Red River of the North.

The highway then heads east for a mile and a half more before crossing the Red River of the North and entering Marshall County, Minnesota.

Red River of the North

The city turned to the Canadian Army and the Red Cross for help, and nearly 70,000 people were evacuated from their homes and businesses.

Roy P. Johnson

His newspaper columns remain the most detailed and incisive chronicle of the history of the Red River of the North and its environs.

Stephen Harriman Long

Major Long's 1823 expedition up the Minnesota River (then known as St. Peter's River), to the headwaters of the Red River of the North, down that river to Pembina and Fort Garry, and thence by canoe across British Canada to Lake Huron is sometimes confused with his initial expedition to the Red River in modern-day Texas and Oklahoma.

Later, in 1823 he led additional military expeditions into the United States borderlands with Canada, exploring the Upper Mississippi Valley, the Minnesota River, the Red River of the North and across the southern part of Canada.

Winnipeg South Centre

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


Charles Thurber

No monument exists at the site of the lynching, which took place on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway (later becoming the Great Northern Railway) bridge over the Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

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.

Pierre Bonga

Pierre Bonga (Mukdaweos) (b.c. 1770s) was a black (African-American) trapper and interpreter for the North West Company, based in Canada, and later for John Jacob Astor's the American Fur Company, working primarily along the Red River of the North and near Lake Superior in present-day Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Red River cart

Often drawn by oxen, though also by horses or mules, these carts were used throughout most of the 19th century in the fur trade and in westward expansion in Canada and the United States, in the area of the Red River and on the plains west of the Red River Colony.

Sheyenne River

Previously, the river posed a flooding hazard to cities such as West Fargo and Harwood, where it joins the Red River of the North and flows north to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba.