Roseau River (Manitoba–Minnesota)

The Roseau River is a 214-mile-long (344 km)[1] tributary of the Red River of the North, in southern Manitoba in Canada and northwestern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Red River, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River, it is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay.

This article is about the river located in Manitoba and Minnesota. For other uses, see Roseau River (disambiguation).
The Red River drainage basin, with the Roseau River highlighted

The name is from the French for reed, roseau, in turn from the Ojibwe Ga-shashagunushkokawi-sibi, "place-of-rushes river."[2]

The river flows through the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation. It is also the namesake for the community of Roseau River in Manitoba.

See also
  • List of Manitoba rivers
  • List of Minnesota rivers

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 8, 2011
  2. "Roseau History". www.visitnwminnesota.com.



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