Its source is near Churchill Lake in north west Saskatchewan, from where it flows east through a series of lakes, including Highrock Lake, Granville Lake (on which Leaf Rapids lies), Southern Indian Lake and Gauer Lake before emptying into the Button Bay inlet of Hudson Bay at Churchill, Manitoba.
Churchill, Manitoba, is a town on the shore of HudsonBay in Manitoba, Canada, situated at a latitude of 58.47 N. The small community stands at an ecotone, the juncture of two ecoregions: the boreal forest to the south, and the Arctic tundra to the north.
The first permanent settlement was a log fort built at the mouth of the ChurchillRiver in 1717 as a part of the extensive fur-trading network established by the Hudson'sBay Company - mostly to capitalize on the northern trade, out of the reach of York Factory.
The town gains its name from John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, who was governor of the Hudson'sBay Company in the late 1600s and an ancestor of Winston Churchill.
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