Chaba River (Canada)

The Chaba River is a short river in western Alberta, Canada. It flows from the Canadian Rockies, and joins the Athabasca River.^[1]

Chaba River
Chaba River and Chaba Icefield
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Chaba Icefield
• coordinates	52°14′49″N 117°40′52″W
• elevation	1,597 m (5,240 ft)
Mouth
• location	Athabasca River
• coordinates	52°25′05″N 117°39′38″W
• elevation	1,380 m (4,530 ft)

The Chaba River is a major tributary of the Athabasca. The Chaba is fed by the glacial melt originating in the Chaba Icefield, comprising Chaba Peak, as well as Listening and Sundial Peaks. A small glacier on Mount Quincy also contributes to the Chaba. The river was given its name by A. P. Coleman, a geologist born in Eastern Canada in 1852.^[2] He stated there "were endless beaver dams and trees" along the river, and named it after the Stoney Indian word for beavers."^[3]

See also

• List of Alberta rivers

References

1. Mussio Ventures. Central Alberta Backroad Mapbook. Burnaby: Backroad Mapbooks (2002)
2. Coleman, A.P. (1895). "Mount Brown and the Sources of the Athabasca". The Geographical Journal. 5 (1). Royal Geographical Society: 53–61. doi:10.2307/1773875. JSTOR 1773875. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
3. Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1991). Place Names of Alberta, Volume 1. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pg. 45