The name derives from Cree manitou-wapow or Ojibwa manidoobaa, both meaning " straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit ", a place referring to what are now called The Narrows in the centre of Lake Manitoba.

Lake Manitoba was named long before the province of Manitoba.

Manitoba is referring to the idea of spirit in some way, and some place associated with Lake Manitoba.

Manitoba's major lakes are Lake Manitoba, Lake Winnipegosis, and Lake Winnipeg, the tenth-largest freshwater lake in the world and the largest located entirely within southern Canada.

* June 23 – In Canada, the Meech Lake Accord dies after the Manitoba and Newfoundland legislatures fail to approve it ahead of the deadline.

The major proportion of Cree in Canada live north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

The French colonists and explorers, who spelled the term Kilistinon, Kiristinon, and Cristinaux, used the term for numerous tribes which they encountered north of Lake Superior, in Manitoba, and west of there.

* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )

* Kee-too-way-how (‘ Sounding With Flying Wings ’, better known as Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born 1834 St. Boniface, Manitoba, son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was of Métis descent he became chief of the Willow Cree and the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother of Petequakey (‘ Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau ’), lived along Duck Lake, signed 1876 Treaty 6 and settled in a reserve at Muskeg Lake-that was later named after his brother Petequakey-but left the reserve in 1880 and lived again in the following years close to St. Laurent de Grandin mission, played a prominent role during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 in which he participated in every battle, served also as an emissary of the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont to ask the Assiniboine for support, on 23 May 1885 he also submitted the declaration of surrender of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker ') to General Middleton, was captured on the 1st June 1885, in the subsequent trial of Kee-too-way-how at Regina, Louis Cochin testified that he and the carters in the camp of Pitikwahanapiwiyin survived only thanks to the intercession by Kee-way-too-how and its people, despite the positive testimony, he was on 14 August 1885 sentenced to imprisonment for seven years for his involvement in the Métis rebellion, died 1886 ).

Those who fled to Canada now have descendants residing on nine small Dakota Reserves, five of which are located in Manitoba ( Sioux Valley, Long Plain, Dakota Tipi, Birdtail Creek, and Oak Lake ) and the remaining four ( Standing Buffalo, Moose Woods Cap, Round Plain, and Wood Mountain ) in Saskatchewan.

* Red River of the North, a river flowing north through Minnesota, North Dakota, and Manitoba into Lake Winnipeg

Inkpaduta, a Mdewakanton Sioux Indian leader in the area from the 1850s until his departure to join Sitting Bull's band in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, camped at at the south end of the lake that gives the town its name both before and after his participation in the Spirit Lake massacre of 1857, and the Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux uprising.

Lake Winnipeg, Lake Winnipegosis, Lake Manitoba, and Lake of the Woods, among others, are relics of the ancient lake.

* Lynn Lake, Manitoba

In 1978, the Johnstons and their two children relocated to Lynn Lake, Manitoba.

Rivers draining into the Lake Nicaragua or the San Juan River ( Rio San Juan ), whose waters eventually drains into the Caribbean, include:

As with Oneida and Cazenovia Lakes, it drains into Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

Likewise, Chautauqua Lake to the west is not considered a Finger Lake ; it drains into the Allegheny River and eventually into the Gulf of Mexico.

The ethnonym has been connected with the name of a river flowing through Västergötland in Sweden, the Göta älv, which drains Lake Vänern into the Kattegat.

* 2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.

Lake Erie is primarily fed by the Detroit River ( from Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair ) and drains via the Niagara River and Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario.

Geographically, Motala is situated where Lake Vättern drains into the river system of Motala ström, which was of central importance to the massive industralization of Sweden in the 19th century.

Rivers are most extensively developed in the north, and the country's major river system is that of the Selenge, which drains into Lake Baikal.

* 1980 – Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit.

Stockholm was founded in 1252 on an island in the stream where Lake Mälaren ( from the west ) drains into the Baltic Sea ( to the east ).

Approximately south of Orange, Texas, it meets the Neches River from the west to form the and Sabine Lake, which drains through Sabine Pass to the Gulf of Mexico.

Lake Superior drains into the St. Marys River at Sault Ste.

Located on the Niagara River which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world, with a vertical drop of more than 165 feet ( 50 m ).

The area that drains into the Conewango Creek ( including Chautauqua Lake ) eventually empties into the Gulf of Mexico ; the rest of the county's watershed empties into Lake Erie and out into the North Atlantic Ocean.

In the 20th century the majority of the Zuiderzee was closed off from the North Sea ( leaving the mouth of the inlet to become part of the Wadden Sea ) and the salt water inlet changed into a fresh water lake called the IJsselmeer ( IJssel Lake ) after the river that drains into it, and by means of drainage and polders, an area of some was reclaimed as land.

The country is dominated by Lake Malawi, which drains into the Zambezi River through the Shire River.

Lake Titicaca drains southward through the slow-moving, reed-filled Desaguadero River to Lake Poopó.

The Kanem Empire originated in the 9th century AD to the northeast of Lake Chad.

North and northeast of Lake Chad, the basin extends for more than 800 kilometers, passing through regions characterized by great rolling dunes separated by very deep depressions.

Oneida Lake, to the northeast of Syracuse, New York, is sometimes included as the " thumb ," although it is shallow and somewhat different in character from the rest.

The largest freshwater lake is Lake Biwa, northeast of Kyoto.

Some researches try to connect the creation of Kanem-Bornu with exodus from the collapsed Assyrian Empire c. 600 BC to the northeast of Lake Chad.

Lake Champlain is situated in the Lake Champlain Valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York, drained northward by the long Richelieu River into the St. Lawrence River at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec northeast and downstream of Montreal.

There are two lakes in the area, Park Lake and Lake Lansing, both northeast of the city.

A few years afterwards, Methodist Episcopal circuit riders from New York State began to arrive in Canada West at Niagara, and the north shore of Lake Erie in 1786, and at the Kingston region on the northeast shore of Lake Ontario in the early 1790s.

Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the south and it borders Lake Chad to the northeast.

Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located a few miles northeast of the city on the Pecos River.

The combined river flows southeast across northeast Texas and is joined by a fourth branch, Lake Fork Creek, downstream from the reservoir.

More than 75 % of the population live in the central plain, which stretches between the Alps and the Jura Mountains and from Geneva in the southwest to the Rhine River and Lake Constance in the northeast.

Seneca lake has a typical aquatic population for large deep lakes in the northeast, with coldwater fish such as Lake Trout and Atlantic Salmon inhabiting the deeper waters, and warmwater fish such as Smallmouth Bass and Yellow Perch inhabiting the shallower areas.

Addressing this contingency, the Ohio delegates included a provision in the draft Ohio constitution that if the trapper's report about Lake Michigan's position were in fact correct, the state boundary line would be angled slightly northeast so as to intersect Lake Erie at the " most northerly cape of the Miami Bay.

In Michigan v. Ohio, the court upheld a special master's report and ruled that the boundary between the two states in Lake Erie was angled to the northeast, as described in Ohio's state constitution, and not a straight east-west line.

Located within the namesake Groom Lake Valley portion of the Tonopah Basin, the lake is northeast of Papoose Lake's S-4 ( Sector Four ) location and ~ south of Rachel, Nevada.

A large bay that protrudes northeast from Lake Huron into Ontario, Canada is called Georgian Bay.

Minsk is located on the southeastern slope of the Minsk Hills, a region of rolling hills running from the southwest ( upper reaches of the river Nioman ) to the northeast – that is, to Lukomskaye Lake in northwestern.

The river then turns south in southern Idaho and eventually flows into the northeast arm of the Great Salt Lake.

The interior of the island has many lakes ( Kennedy Lake, northeast of Ucluelet, is the largest ) and rivers.

The city is located in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest and the steep Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges on the eastern and western borders, respectively.