What is "athabasca"

Athabasca (also Athabaska) is an anglicized version of the Cree name for Lake Athabasca in Canada, āthap-āsk-ā-w (pronounced ), meaning “grass or reeds here and there”.

Related to the lake are several other geographical and administrative features called Athabasca. Most places named Athabasca are found in Alberta, Canada:

Geographical features:

• Mount Athabasca , a mountain in Jasper National Park, Canada
  • Athabasca Glacier, a glacier in Jasper National Park, Canada
• Athabasca River, river in Alberta, Canada
  • Athabasca Falls, waterfalls on the Athabasca River
  • Peace-Athabasca Delta – of the Peace River, Athabasca River, near Lake Athabasca
• Athabasca Oil Sands – oil producing region in Alberta, Canada
• Lake Athabasca, large lake in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
• Athabasca Pass, a mountain pass in Jasper National Park
• Athabasca Valles, a feature on the surface of the planet Mars
• Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park

Administrative features:

• Athabasca, Alberta, town in Canada, formerly (1880–1914) named Athabasca Landing
• Athabasca County, a municipal district in Alberta, Canada
• District of Athabasca, former district of the North-West Territory
• Athabaska (electoral district), a former federal electoral district (1925–1968) in Alberta
• Athabasca (electoral district), a federal electoral district (since 1968) in Alberta
• Athabasca (provincial electoral district), former provincial electoral district in Alberta
• Athabasca (former Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)
• Athabasca (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)
• Athabasca University, distance learning university in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
  • Athabasca University Students' Union

Other:

• Athabaskan languages, a language family indigenous to North America
• Athabaska Herald, one of the officers of arms at the Canadian Heraldic Authority
• Athabasca (novel), novel by Alistair MacLean
• Athabasca, a character in Terry Brooks's Shannara series
• SS Athabasca, a steamship launched in Scotland in 1883 and put into service on the Great Lakes, along with SS Alberta and SS Algoma
• Any of three ships named HMCS Athabaskan
• MS Fort Athabasca, a Canadian-owned, British-registered merchant ship bombed 2 December 1943 during World War II
• Athabascaite, a mineral
• Athabaska Airways, earlier name of Transwest Air
• Athabasca Valles, a channel on the planet Mars

Athabasca is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located in the extreme northwest corner of the province. The major industries are tourism, mineral extraction, forestry, commercial fishing and trapping. The Cluff Lake uranium mine is located in this constituency, as well as the Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park and the Clearwater River Provincial Park. The major communities are La Loche, Île-à-la-Crosse and Buffalo Narrows with populations of 2,136, 1,268 and 1,137 respectively.

The election was most recently contested in the 2016 general election, during which incumbent NDP MLA Buckley Belanger was re-elected.

There is also a former provincial electoral district of the same name that was created before the 1908 general election and was dissolved before the 1917 general election.

Athabasca was a provincial electoral district covering north east Alberta, Canada.

The riding, was created in 1905 when Alberta first became a province. The riding disappeared in 1986 when it merged with Lac La Biche to form the riding of Athabasca-Lac La Biche.

Athabasca is a novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1980. As with the novel Night Without End, it depicts adventure, sabotage and murder in the unforgiving Arctic environment. It is laid in the oilfields and oil sands fields of Alaska and Canada and includes a considerable amount of technical detail on the operations.