Assiniboine

Assiniboine, a river of British North America, rising in 51° 40' N. lat., and 105° E. long. At Winnipeg it joins the Red River (q.v.), which discharges its waters into Lake Winnipeg. At a point 140 miles from its mouth, the Assiniboine is 230 feet broad, and its mean depth over 8 feet; its course measures about 400 miles. Its tributaries are the Little Souris, Qu'appelle, Rapid River or Little Saskatchewan, White Sand River, and Beaver Creek. The river gives name to a tribe of Indians, and to the district of Assiniboia of the North-west Territories. There is steam communication between Winnipeg and Fort Ellice, a decayed post of the Hudson Bay Company, about 700 miles distant. Here the great North-western trail crosses the Assiniboine by a rude rope-ferry.