Red River of the North

Red River of the North, a navigable river of the United States and Canada, rises in Elbow Lake, Minnesota, near the sources of the Mississippi, and flows south and west to Breckinridge, then north, forming the boundary between Minnesota and North Dakota, and so into Manitoba and through a flat country to Lake Winnipeg. Its course is 665 miles (525 in the United States). The Red River Settlement was the origin of Manitoba (q.v.). For the Red River Expedition, see CANADA, Vol. II. p. 695, and RIEL.