The first phase of the rehabilitation of Oxbow Lake in St. Francois Xavier will begin later this month, according to the rural municipality’s chief administrative officer. CAO Robert Poirier sa ...

Mitch Muir, 55, usually works in downtown Vancouver, but he was at his home near Oxbow Lake on Thursday afternoon caring for his dog Joey, who had just had surgery.

In the process, various fish species unique to the lake escaped into the swamp, while farmers lost crops to flooding. Downstream, several homes in parts of Usonga and Budalangi flooded, displacing ...

This cutting-off process left this 11-mile-long waterway with a name unique to describe such places, an “oxbow lake,” so identified because its arc was the image of a harness used on an ox.