Athabaska

Chief Allan Adam of the Alberta-based Athabaska Chipewyan First Nation told the the protests were escalating towards more direct action.

The plan calls for a series of canals and pumping stations linking Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake in the NWT to Lake Athabaska and lake Winnipeg and then the Great Lakes for bulk water exports to the U.S.

It is almost unknown on Hudson Bay, but is abundant in migrations about Great Slave and Athabaska lakes.

“The pass across the mountains by the Portage River, ‘The Committee’s Punchbowl’ and Whirlpool River, known as the Athabaska Pass, was for many years the route of the British fur traders in going from one side of the Rocky Mountains to the other.

������ the ascent to Athabaska Pass must have been may be judged from this description by Alexander Ross—one of the original Astoria party—written over a hundred years ago.