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*{{cite web|url= http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/topo/map |title= Toporama - Topographic Map Sheet73P8|work= [[Atlas of Canada]]|publisher= [[Natural Resources Canada]]|accessdate= 2010-01-04}}
*{{cite web|url= http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/topo/map |title= Toporama - Topographic Map Sheet73P8|work= [[Atlas of Canada]]|publisher= [[Natural Resources Canada]]|accessdate= 2010-01-04}}
*[http://www.publications.gov.sk.ca/details.cfm?p=11115
*[http://www.publications.gov.sk.ca/details.cfm?p=11115] Fish Species of Saskatchewan
*[http://www.tpcs.gov.sk.ca/LacLaRonge Lac La Ronge Provincial Park]
*[http://www.tpcs.gov.sk.ca/LacLaRonge Lac La Ronge Provincial Park]



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The Rapid River is a short river in central Saskatchewan, Canada, about 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of the community of Stanley Mission. It is part of the Churchill River drainage basin. The river is about 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) long and flows north from Iskwatikan Lake, which lies downstream from Lac la Ronge, over the Nistowiak Falls, one of the tallest in Saskatchewan, and the Fisher Rapids, to Nistowiak Lake on the Churchill River, which flows to Hudson Bay. The entire river is within Lac la Ronge Provincial Park.

Fish Species

The fish species in the river include: walleye, sauger, yellow perch, northern pike, lake trout, lake whitefish, cisco, white sucker, shorthead redhorse, longnose sucker, lake sturgeon and burbot.

See also

References

  • "Toporama - Topographic Map Sheet73P8". Atlas of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  • [1] Fish Species of Saskatchewan
  • Lac La Ronge Provincial Park