Bow River Research Paper

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The Bow River is one of 47 rivers In Canada the Bow River starts in the Rocky Mountains and winds through the foothills and flows flew into the prairies where is finds the Oldman River and then forming into the South Saskatchewan River then the waters in the end it flows through the Nelson River and then into the Hudson Bay and why the Bow river is called the Bow river because the First Nations people had mad Bows and had different use for the river as well the First Nations had made bow out of and they even use the valleys to hunt buffalo. And the Bow River got its name from the reeds they had grown along the river banks and the Peigans name for it was Makhabn’’, and that meaning is ‘river where bow reeds. But this river has helped us Canadians

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