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Title: Canada and its provinces : a history of the Canadian people and their institutions by one hundred associates
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Shortt, Adam, 1859-1931 Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1860-1936
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Publisher: Toronto : Printed by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press for the Publishers' Association of Canada
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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lakes in the Laurentian are borderedwith marshes, and are gradually filling up with vegetablegrowth, becoming peat bogs or muskegs. The long fiord-like lakes of the Cordillera have greatscenic attractions, and are also important as means of com-munication. In addition to the better known lakes, suchlakes as Kootenay, Slocan, Arrow, Okanagan and Atlin maybe mentioned as possessing almost matchless beauty. The lakes of Canada are freshwater, but on the plainsthere are a few small lakes, such as Old Wives Lake in SouthernSaskatchewan, that have no outlets and are consequentlyalkaline. In these the heavy evaporation equals the supplyof water entering the lakes, so that no outlet is required. Theentering streams, of course, contain a small amount of saltin solution, which is left in the lake as the water evaporates,gradually rendering the lake saline. In summer, whenevaporation exceeds the supply, round the edges of such lakesand ponds may be seen a white rim of the salts, mostlymagnesian.
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