Chinchaga River in Alberta
Chinchaga is a river in north-western Alberta. It is a tributary of the Hay River. Through the Hay River, its waters are carried to the Arctic Ocean via Great Slave Lake and Mackenzie River. The name Chinchaga is First Nations, and means "Big Wood River".[1] Much of the Chinchaga watershed burned in 1950 during the Chinchaga fire.[2]
- ^ Land Surveyors in Alberta. "Place Names". Archived from the original on 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ Pyne, Stephen J (2007). Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press. pp. 61–63. ISBN 9780774813914.