DCHP-2

Athabasca [< Algonk.: Cree athapaskaw grass or reeds here and there] Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 n.

  the general region drained by the upper Athabasca River, a vast area important to the early fur trade.

  See also: Athabasca territory  

• 2 n.

  Fort Athabasca.

• 3 n.

  one of the Northwest Territories created in 1882, now forming part of Alberta, of Saskatchewan, and of Manitoba.