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great bend 
an extensive curve in a river's course, used often as a point of reference.
- 1801 From this lake the Saskatchiwine may be considered navigable to near its sources in the rocky mountains, for canoes, and without a carrying-place, making a great bend to Cumberland House, on Sturgeon Lake.
- 1929 (1931) Committee's Punch Bowl, still so known, is in reality a pair of tarns or mountain pools, one of which empties into Whirlpool River, the headstream of the Athabasca, the other into Wood River, a tributary of the Canoe River, which flows into the Columbia at the great bend.
- 1801 From this lake the Saskatchiwine may be considered navigable to near its sources in the rocky mountains, for canoes, and without a carrying-place, making a great bend to Cumberland House, on Sturgeon Lake.