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The Athabaska River is one of four rivers originating in the Columbia Ice Field in the Rocky Mountains. In the late nineteenth century it was an important commercial river now displaced by the railroad. Along with the Peace river it empties into a large delta that bares its name forming an huge delta and wetland for wildlife. Along it's course are the petroleum producing Athabaska oil sands with dunes that are slowly blowing across the landscape buying forests as they move.

Prior to 1965 the Saint Croix river was employed to transport timber for the vast logging industry. Today the river has returned to nature making it popular with canoeists who enjoy the river rapids that gradually increase in difficulty over the course of the river. The river has a storied history from the Passamaquoddy people, whose ancient villages are now being excavated, to the colonial and industrial eras of logging and shipbuilding.

Margaree River is a rare alkaline free flowing river that flows though Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. This makes it an ideal habitat of Salmon spawning and fishing. Unidustrialzed, the river bank hosts old growth forest of birch, sugar maple and oak and beautiful scenery.

The Red Deer river traverses a largely settled region of Alberta. It is a strip of wilderness within a large expanse of farm land and even within the occasional city. In the past grass fires maintained a prairie habitat along the river but now agriculture suppresses the fires and the river banks are populated by forests. The forests along with wetland oxbows created by the river's meanders create a lush habitat for birds and flowering plants several of which are shown in video. Unfortunatly the farms also introduced DDT which depleted the raptor population. Peregrine falcons are now being reintroduced along the river.

Connecting Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay, the slow, shallow Hayes River was a popular highway for the Cree people for thousands of years then for the fur trade with the arrival of the Europeans. Today it is left to canoeists who share their reasons for engaging in the 28 day journey down the length of the river.