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chenal -aux. Cdn French "channel" (often in place names) Northwest 
n. See snye (def. 2).
See also: chenail snye (def. 2)
- 1793 (1933) [The river] has changed its course back to what it was at the entrance of the Chenaux 5 Leagues below the Grand Calumet.
- 1896 We continued through the winding chanals (anglicized as "schnys"). . . .
- 1928 . . . the great western river had already received a considerable portion of the discharge of the Athabasca through the Chenal des Quatre Fourches.
- 1793 (1933) [The river] has changed its course back to what it was at the entrance of the Chenaux 5 Leagues below the Grand Calumet.