Preface
1: Introduction
2: Location, Borders, and Lakes
3: Geologic Structure and Landforms
4: Climate
5: Vegetation
6: Pre-historic and Early Historic Settlements
7: Survey Systems
8: Southern Hamlets, Villages, and Towns
9: Mennonite and Hutterite Settlements
10: First Nations Settlements
11: Northern Settlements
12: The Southern Cities
13: Mining and Oil Extraction
14: Agriculture
15: Industry / Manufacturing
16: Water Resources
17: Parks, Recreation, Sports
18: Transport and Communications: Past and Present
19: Legal Issues and Law Enforcement
GlossaryChapter 16: Water Resources
Introduction
16.53: The Assiniboine River/Shell River Junction Before the Construction of the Shellmouth Dam
The photo shows the southward-flowing Assiniboine River 1 near the junction with its left bank tributary, the Shell River 2. Thunder Creek 3 flows across the southeast corner on its way south to join the Assiniboine (off the photograph), and a small unnamed creek 4 joins the
In what was in 1956 a rather remote part of the province, there is little settlement and few transport routes. The hamlet of Shellmouth 11 can be seen in the west with the CN railway line 12 passing through it. It angles down the east side of the spillway 13, runs perpendicularly across the spillway floor 14, and angles up the west side of the spillway 15, a route designed to achieve minimum gradients. PR 482 16 can be seen in the north, and a gravel road leading to Shellmouth 17 takes two jogs, one to pass between two sloughs 18 and the other to decrease the gradient down the spillway side 19.
Figure 16.53: The Assiniboine River/Shell River Junction Before the Construction of the Shellmouth Dam
Figure 16.53
Vertical air photograph: A15537-130
Flight height: 20,000 feet; lens focal length: 6 inches
Scale: 1:36,200 (approx.)
Date: October 10, 1956
Location: Townships 22 and 23; Range 29WI
Map sheets: 1:250,000 62K Riding Mountain
1:50,000 62K/14 Inglis