Quebec History Marianopolis College


Date Published:
July 2005

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

 

George River

 

George river, a large stream in New Quebec territory, Quebec, which flows in a northerly direction almost parallel with the Labrador coast, into Ungava bay off Hudson strait. Its has a length of 365 miles, including Indian House lake, which is an expansion of it. It was named by the Moravian missionaries in 1811 after George III of Great Britain.

Source  : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. III, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 396p., p. 26.

 

 
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