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  1. RRC Polytech offers over 150 programs in applied arts, science, engineering, and technology. Learn on campuses located on Treaty 3 Territory and Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

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    The Red River begins at the confluence of the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers and flows north, creating the border between Minnesota and North Dakota. It then passes through Fargo and Grand Forks, North Dakota and is joined by the Pembina River just south of the Canadian border before reaching Emerson, Manitoba. Between Emerson and Winnipeg, th...

    The Red River is located in a temperate grassland region; however, much of the natural landscape has been converted for agricultural purposes. The land adjacent to the river is home to willow, cottonwood, American elm, Manitoba maple, green ash, bur oak and basswood. Bluestem, switchgrass, Indian grass, quaking aspen, rough fescue and oak can be fo...

    Water quality is a concern in the Red River,and is affected by both natural (e.g., sediment) and human (e.g., contaminants) substances. The river supplies drinking water to municipalities in southern Manitoba, Minnesota and North Dakota, as well as water for industrial and agricultural activities (e.g., irrigation). As a result of human activities ...

    The Red River is prone to severe flooding, particularly during the spring as snow melts and river ice breaks up. Major floods in 1826 and 1852 both contributed to the destruction of the original Upper Fort Garry (Winnipeg). Since then, severe flooding has occurred in 1861, 1950, 1966, 1974,1979, 1996, 1997, 2006, 2009 and 2011. The 1997 flood was t...

    For thousands of years before contact with Europeans, the Red River basin in what is now Manitoba was inhabited by the Sioux and Saulteaux (an Ojibwa people). The Red River and its tributaries were significant to transportation,trade and fishing,while the surrounding land was important for hunting and ceremonial activities. Archaeological evidence ...

    Learn about the Red River, a 880 km long river that flows from Minnesota and North Dakota to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. Discover its course, flora and fauna, environmental concerns and flooding history.

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  3. The Red River (French: rivière Rouge), also called the Red River of the North (French: rivière Rouge du Nord) to differentiate it from the Red River in the south of the continent, is a river in the north-central United States and central Canada.

  4. The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South to differentiate it from the Red River in the north of the continent, is a major river in the Southern United States. It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed.

  5. Red River Settlement, (1811–36), colony in Canada on the banks of the Red River near the mouth of the Assiniboine River (in what is now Manitoba). The colony was founded in 1811–12 by Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of Selkirk, a Scottish philanthropist, who obtained from the Hudson’s Bay Company a grant.

  6. Red River, navigable river rising in the high plains of eastern New Mexico, U.S., and flowing southeast across Texas and Louisiana to a point northwest of Baton Rouge, where it enters the Atchafalaya River, which flows south to Atchafalaya Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

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