Qu'Appelle River

Qu'Appelle River

River, southern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is about 270 mi (435 km) long and flows east through several lakes and Indian reservations and across the Manitoba border into the Assiniboine River. Its French name, meaning “who calls,” derived from its Cree Indian name Kah-tep-was (“River That Calls”), referring to the cries of a legendary spirit supposedly haunting its waters. Once a fur-trapping region, its basin is now farmed for wheat.