North America's OTHER Forgotten "Great Lakes"

Sure, North America's Great Lakes are famous, but are these lesser-known lakes just as great? Come learn about the continent's largest lakes outside the Great Lakes system - including a few larger than some of the Great Lakes themselves! We'll discuss how these lakes formed, their "deranged" hydrology, and their significance to the continent today. Let's Explore!
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:34 Criteria
1:15 How did these lakes get here?
2:00 Lake Winnipeg Basin
4:51 Lakes of northern Saskatchewan
6:07 Great Slave Lake
7:15 Great Bear Lake
7:51 Rounding out Canada
9:14 Non-Canadian Lakes
9:55 Conclusion
Note [thanks to David Danos in the comments]: The "Great Slave Lake" has a name that the local Dene nations abhor. There are big efforts to change the name away from 'slave'-related exonyms. The Deh Cho Dene nation is just one of the four nations in whose territories this lake is found. The others are the Tłı̨chǫ, Tetsǫ́t’ıné, and Dëne Sųłıné.
CORRECTIONS:
Since Alaska is part of the continent of North America, it's more accurate to say the Northwest Angle is the only part of the 48 contiguous states above the 49th parallel north.
Credits:
North America Map svg: User:Kaldari and User:Halava, CC BY 3.0
Lake Winnipeg Map: NormanEinstein, CC BY-SA 3.0
Nelson, Churchill, Mackenzie, & Mississippi Basins: Shannon1, CC BY SA 4.0
Athabasca Dunes: Tim Beckett, CC BY 2.0
Athabascan Languages: Noahedits, CC BY-SA 4.0
Deline: mattcatpurple, CC BY-SA 2.0
Lakes in this video:
Rainy Lake
Lake of the Woods
Lake Winnipeg
Cedar Lake
Lake Manitoba
Lake Winnipegosis
Lake Diefenbaker
Wollaston Lake
Reindeer Lake
Lake Athabasca
Great Slave Lake
Great Bear Lake
Dubawnt Lake
Nettilling Lake
Amadjuak Lake
Lake Melville
Smallwood Reservoir
Caniapiscau Reservoir
Robert-Bourassa Reservoir
Manicouagan Reservoir
Iliamna Lake
Great Salt Lake
Lake Nicaragua

[@coreymulvey6141]

I think we can all agree that Lake of the Woods is an amazing name for a lake. I fully expect to find a fairy there.

[@SignoreGalilei]

It does sound like that, you're right.

[@jasonreed7522]

There are other lakes of the same name, although they are WAY smaller. The kne near me is in the normal lake range of just a couple square miles and maybe 100ft deep. Now I'm curious what the actual average and median lake sizes are (volume, area, avg depth, and max depth using every lake in the world as the data set).

[@MrAwesomeSaucem]

It’s absolutely beautiful in person. Totally wild with few exceptions. On windless day it can be so quiet it feels like you’re underwater. You should go if you ever get the chance :)

[@hvitekristesdod]

I’ve always wanted to visit. The Northwest Angle seems like a fascinating place

[@beezelsub]

Enchanted sword, maybe.

[@fraserhenderson7839]

I flew over Great Bear lake at 7,000' on a sunny day in August. Flying north, the late morning sun was behind us and it poured into the lake with minimal reflection. Great Bear is more than 1,400' deep and very clear. The range of colours was superb with faint yellow/blue/green in the shallows fading through a thousand shades to blue/black over the deepest parts. It may be the most beatiful thing I ever saw from an aircraft.

[@Rancid-Jane]

Wow! That was fun to read about.

[@SignoreGalilei]

That sounds incredible!

[@jonm.5216]

Hopefully one day I get the check out lake. It has such amazing history.

[@sharkusvelarde]

1400 feet?!!

[@fraserhenderson7839]

@@sharkusvelarde Yes, 1,456 feet at it's deepest. Very deep. There are giant lake trout there, the world's largest. The record line caught fish at 72 lbs and the largest caught in a gill net by indigenous fishers at 82 lbs. it is a huge lake with more than 2,200 miles of shoreline. Canada does lakes well. There are around a million there.

[@johnmcgraw1475]

I never knew how much I wanted to learn about obscure Canadian geography

[@suckmyartauds]

Same! These lakes look so beautiful

[@SignoreGalilei]

Glad I could help!

[@yermom014]

You should check out the Nahanni Valley

[@debestcanadian]

Going to my birthplace Manitoulin Island (the largest island in a lake on earth), we have Lake Manitou, the world's largest lake on an island in a lake. Then there's Treasure Island in Lake Mindemoya, which is the world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Cool!

[@BobbySanders-bf2fr]

My God.......

[@crisptomato9495]

Wow I’ve been to Manitoulin a couple of times and had no idea! It’s a gorgeous place.

[@plazasta]

It keeps going for Canada lol. Nettilling lake was mentioned as the largest lake on an island in the world, but it also contains the largest lake on an island on a lake on an island iirc, and of course it contains the largest island on a lake on an island on a lake on an island in the world too!

[@Cratercitysmith]

i remember when i was younger i would go to a relatives cottage on Manitoulin island and it had an amazing view of treasure island, it looked like a sleeping lady and i remember trying to get there in a paddleboat

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

This is a very underappreciated channel. Glad your last vid exploded. Hope this one does too

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks so much! I've been watching your videos for years, it makes me quite proud to have you commenting here on my channel. Obviously no obligation, but if you have any feedback or advice as a creator I'd love to hear what you have to say.

[@Kattalanonyt]

@@SignoreGalilei He probably gets so many replies that youtube flushes them out in his notifications. At a certain point youtube starts to selectively select which replies a person is notified about, and I doubt he will be notified about this one.

[@SignoreGalilei]

@@Kattalanonyt Yeah, that seems likely. Thought it might be worth a shot though.

[@chrish4439]

​@@SignoreGalilei The smallest great lake is Ontario which is almost 19000 square km. I think calling lakes that are only 2500sq/km a great lake is a little misleading lol

[@LotzaCubes]

It’s nice to know more about these lakes as I remember gazing onto maps of Canada and always wonder why we were never taught about these lakes in general.

[@jasonreed7522]

Depending on where you went to school the 2 most likely reasons are that its not your country, and that most of this list is effectively the middle of nowhere so their are few cities or even settlements of note for anyone not from the area. (Basically they are too far away to care about, but not unique enough like the arctic and antarctic to be considered exotic and interesting)

[@SignoreGalilei]

I think it would be cool to cover stuff like this in class. Even if they don't go over every individual lake, at least talk about why there are so many lakes here in the first place.

[@juliaf_]

@@jasonreed7522 we don't learn much about geography in general, so lakes that don't serve much purpose are pretty low priority lol The only lakes I learned about in school were the great lakes (though I live around Lake Ontario) and the Manicouagan reservoir/the eye of Quebec specifically because it's a crater

[@davidrossi3914]

Becouse there is nothing to learn, it's canada

[@HomoChomsky]

​@@davidrossi3914 Wrong.

[@m1gramme]

I first clicked on this as a Michigander thinking "There is no such thing as 'great lakes' other than our great lakes!" I stand humbly and gratefully corrected. Great video!

[@jasonreed7522]

Wait till you here about the ones in Africa. As an Upstate New Yorker I was shocked at the existence of a second set of "great lakes". (The African ones include lake Victoria, i think overall they are not nearly as impressive as ours though)

[@TheSpecialJ11]

When you consider Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are geologically just one big lake, and Lake Superior is a behemoth in itself, I'd say we're still top dogs though. Only the Caspian is comparable, but at a certain point it's just a true inland sea, bring in all respects a sea, just cut off from the world's oceans.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks! Glad I could expand your lake horizons there.

[@stevenschofding1308]

@@TheSpecialJ11Can’t forget Lake Baikal holds 22-23% of surface fresh water and Lake Tanganyika is huge too…

[@voretex4202]

Same!!!

[@Lucilezs]

9:45 Thank you for adding a lake from my country, an interesting thing about lake Nicaragua is that is the only lake in the world with fresh water sharks in it!

[@SignoreGalilei]

That is an interesting thing, thanks!

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

with a canel built thought it cost to cost I expect it will become very damaged very fast. Harming biodiversity and salt leaves will also increase.

[@Lucilezs]

@@XxxXxx-fm3wo It would, That’s a reason most of us were against building a canal , it would have damaged the ecosystem of the zone, not to mention the deforestation it would cause.

[@reidsimonson]

From what I know for my Ichthyology studies is the there isn’t anything unique about the Bull sharks in Lake Nicaragua as this species exists widely and is also seen in the Mississippi and connected intercostals.

[@reanbowlerd5988]

@@reidsimonson its unique because its the only freshwater lake in the world that contains oceanic life such as sharks, swordfish, and tarpon. Bullsharks being able to go up the Mississippi doesnt discount anything from the sharks that live entirely within lake nicaragua because they typically dont remain in the Mississippi for long periods.

[@lw256]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought about this looking at the crazy lakes in Canada, so I looked it up. Apparently Lake Yathkyed in Nunavut has an island in it, which in turn has a lake on it, that itself contains an island, on which there's a lake...with an island in it.

[@SignoreGalilei]

I did see that when I was doing the research, it's pretty cool. Maybe someone should sponsor an expedition there.

[@johnearle1]

Newfoundland is an island. It has a lake called Grand Lake. Within Grand Lake, there’s an island called Glover Island. Upon that island, there’s a lake. Within that lake, there’s yet another island. So, there’s an island in a lake on an island in a lake, on an island. Quite rare.

[@markvicferrer]

When I was a kid looking at a map of Canada, I was always confused why those 5 lakes clustered together were called the "Great Lakes", while two up north with the word "Great" literally in their names weren't.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah, that's part of why I did this video haha

[@taxcollector511]

A video like this but on the lakes of europe would also be really intresting, the nordics and parts of russia have many glacial lakes like this

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll make a note of that.

[@adcraziness1501]

The African Great Lakes are also very impressive.

[@RockymountainRobert]

Who asked you peter

[@Tinil0]

There are only 8 lakes that would qualify though sadly. Europe really doesn't really have any "great" lakes other than Ladoga.

[@taxcollector511]

@@Tinil0 europe still has many amazing lakes, all over Finland, Sweden and Russia

[@zixder]

I feel like some of these lakes are often forgotten, but they have great historical importance, so this video really lets the public learn more about these lakes.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

Lake Winnipeg is a huge sea like lake. I've been on all side of it east and west and from beautiful Grand Beach in the south during summer, and to Norway House in the far north in the winter. The beaches and resort towns are world class destinations; including Hecla Island which I never did go to. It is the worlds largest lake fully within a single province or state.

[@Rancid-Jane]

An interesting factoid. Thank you.

[@SignoreGalilei]

That's pretty cool, thanks!

[@GODDAMNLETMEJOIN]

Prime bird, wait, scratch that, mosquito watching country...

[@GustSergeant]

Hecla Island is lovely, you get a little bit of a maritime fishing vibe from the town while being in the middle of the continent. I have camped, fished and golfed there, and they were all great experiences.

[@JRsmith.]

Did you just call lake Winnipeg a world class destination 😂🤣😂😂 please travel outside of canada

[@janetrickwood2484]

I hitchhiked with a buddy up to Yellowknife from Calgary back in 1973. We wanted to go all the way to the mouth of the MacKenzie, but realised the futility as reality set in: as a 13 and 15 year old in the streets of a wild frontier town the truth dawned on us. Dang it was a fun trip, though! We met some amazing folks. Truckers, indigenous characters, Bible bashers! Man what a journey. I'd love to be young enough to want to do that again. Thanks for the vicarious voyage. That crazy waterway was a dream of a west to east voyage. I came back to Australia and never had the chance to do the great cross continental river voyage. I'm not having a whinge, but! Little Oz is a wonder all of its own and as my homeland leaves me in awe of its ancient beauty. I do regret not going across Canada in a canoe with my buddy all the same.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Glad I could bring back some happy memories to you.

[@keith6706]

You'd have never reached the mouth of the Mackenzie anyway, short of thumbing a ride on an aircraft or one of the barges. The only way there by land is through the Yukon via the Dempster Highway from Dawson to Inuvik, and that was only completed in 1978. Inuvik also happens to be well inland of the actual mouth, at the head of the delta, so to get to the actual coast (a bit past the mouth of the Mackenzie), you'd have to take the road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk. The Tuk road was only finished in 2017.

[@grantdickerson6103]

I absolutely been loving these high quality lake videos, bless up Signore!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@dopeytripod]

be sure to hit LAKE

[@adaptercrash]

Why do you ask such stupid questions they are great lakes because the depth, perhaps stop asking questions or maybe we needed to get rid of that question mark.

[@tobiasmathews4512]

Lake of the woods also has an ice road during the winter. So during some months you can drive to and from the angle without going into Canada. This was an important connection during Covid with the border closures.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Nice. A few people have mentioned that.

[@Davidc9356]

Also a way to fall-in and drown or die from hypothermia.

[@pogs9765]

@@SignoreGalilei there’s also an ice road on lake Athabaska during the winter running from stony rapids to fond du lac and uranium city.

[@CorePathway]

Good news for both people who live there 😘

[@aiwwakk7152]

Canada's geography is just purely amazing.

[@mikelynch-zeroviewz2507]

It's crazy insane how many lakes there are in Canada 🇨🇦

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

Over 100,000 in just Manitoba alone. So many lakes in Ontario too that my grandfather even named one offically so, Grace Lake. Another unoffically Clairabell which is the tiny one just off it to the east. Grace was named after his first wife, and later he named one after my mother Claire. I believe another was Helena Lake unoffically so named for my grandmother. We still have a patented high grade gold claim in the area. The holding which can be purched or leased from my father of Grace Lake Holding. Anyone want a lot of gold?

[@Rancid-Jane]

There is always argument as to what constitutes a lake. Generally various definitions by area are used. Canada's lakes larger than three square kilometres being estimated at close to 31,752. Canada's area is about 9% lake surface. But the province I live in boasts 100,000 lakes, obviously that is a lake definition much smaller than 3 sq km. I did hear once what the minimum size was, I forget now, perhaps 50 acres in area.

[@SignoreGalilei]

There's certainly a lot!

[@mikelynch-zeroviewz2507]

@@XxxXxx-fm3wo that's awesome!!

[@user-gg5td1dk2w]

More lakes in Canada than the rest of the world combined.

[@faktablad]

I appreciate this video as I'm fascinated by these lakes and the Canadian shield in general. I would have liked to see more non-aerial photos and more exploration of the geology, climate, flora and fauna around each lake. With just a satellite photo and surface area, it's hard to imagine what these lakes are actually like!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks for the feedback. Most of the lakes look pretty similar from the surface, but icier as they get farther north.

[@diegopescia9602]

I was too hoping to see the landscapes and features of the area around each one

[@grimrot]

A good idea for the next video might be to talk about some of the crater lakes! I was aware of the crater on reindeer lake but I'd love to know more about others! Love these videos they are great!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks for the suggestion, might be fun. There's a surprising number of lakes in craters.

[@Josh-cw8by]

West Hawk Lake in Manitoba.

[@ungoyone]

I was wondering how many crater lakes exist.

[@2009142]

I think in Sask there's at least 3 crater impacts, the one in this video, one south and one elsewhere. I don't think the other 2 are lakes, but incase you didn't know :)

[@morgan0]

i remember two mentions of craters in this video, one for the deepest point of some lake and another that’s like 99% island in the middle which has always fascinated me. would be cool to see a video on those (and any other crater lakes) in specific

[@Phazon8058MS]

Cool to hear someone talk about the many lakes of Manitoba! My family's got a cottage at Lake of the Woods on the Manitoba side of things. I've spent many summers out there, lot of great memories. I've been up to Lake Winnipeg a couple times, including a middle school science field trip where we spent the day on a research ship on the lake. Got on and off the boat at Gimli. I've been up to Lake Manitoba as well. My mom's family would take day trips to Lake Manitoba when she was a little girl and her family was still on the farm around that area. We most recently went up there as part of my grandpa's interment service. A lot of memories and connections for me to the waters of Manitoba. Some more fun facts about water in Manitoba, the Red River of the North (usually just called the Red River by Manitobans) is one of the rivers that feeds Lake Winnipeg. Where the Assiniboine River meets the Red is where you'll find the City of Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Province of Manitoba. As well, the region between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba is called the "Interlake" region. If you can't tell, I love Manitoba. Happy to see my home get a little time in the spotlight. Thanks. :)

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome, thanks for the story!

[@ackkat2465]

lots of mosquitoes in Manitoba. especially lakes.

[@Alaskancrabpuffs21]

My family owns land on the Minnesota side right where the Rainy River dumps into Lake of the Woods. We visit there every other year and the lake is such a good lake to swim in. Also it is good ice fishing too. Someday I will explore the Canadian side of the lake! It will be a fun exploration!

[@Leon-iv8ko]

I like how you covered some of the Dene’s Great Lakes. I’m fluent in the language and will share your video to my friends and family. Appreciate this video a lot and would like you to create a video about the Denes if you can. TuCho means big water in dene when translated to English

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks! I can't guarantee any specific future videos, but it is a very interesting topic.

[@CHEECHAM32]

Odi

[@pogs9765]

There are different versions of dene the words are the same but mean differently.

[@Lunishta]

Thank you for talking about the Manitoban lakes!

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome!

[@adamleach471]

I apricate your consistency and desire to have a concise compendium of information.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thank you!

[@sierratuccaro5051]

Im so happy you mentioned lake athabasca as i live on the coast of it in a remote community 😊

[@SignoreGalilei]

Cool!

[@Ryan98063]

You may find the "bottomless" Gander Lake in Newfoundland interesting. It's 53 km long, only 2 km across and opinions vary but I have heard some say "not less than 800 feet deep" If it wasn't filled with water it would be a gaping canyon.

[@DavidDanos]

Thank you!! The northern Great Lakes are oft-forgotten... Note on naming, the "Great Slave Lake" has a name that the local Dene nations abhor. There are big efforts to change the name away from 'slave'-related exonyms In the languages in whose country this lake is found, it is called "Tıdeè" in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì, "Tinde’e" in Wıìlıìdeh Yatii / Tetsǫ́t’ıné Yatıé, "Tu Nedhé" in Dëne Sųłıné Yatıé, and "Tucho" in Dene Zhatıé Since they are quite distinct from each other, it is difficult to choose one of the mix. I have defaulted to using a botched version when using English or French: "Lake Tindé" because Yellowknife is the largest town on the lake and Yellowknife is in Tetsot'iné nęnę and Tłı̨chǫ Ndè (the names of the Yellowknife and Tlicho countries, respectively) Note on your explanation in the video. The Deh Cho Dene nation is just one of the four nations in whose territories this lake is found. Their language is Dene Zhatıé and their country is called Dené [Dháh] Ndéh or Deh Cho [Dené] Ndéh (check out "Denendeh," the pan-Dene country, for similarities in the name/etymology). The other three are the two aforementioned Tłı̨chǫ and Tetsǫ́t’ıné as well as the Dëne Sųłıné (whose country can be called Dënësųłinë́ Nëné).

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thank you so much for this! I'm very much a geography generalist and don't know much of the detail of this specific area or its native history beyond what made it into the video. I'm responding on my phone right now but I'll add a note about this to the description when I get to a proper keyboard.

[@HalifaxHercules]

Mahsi Cho (common Navajo Dene/Northern Athabaskan word for "Big Thank You") for bringing this up David. On a personal note, my ex-girlfriend, Clara, is a Sahtu originally from Deline until she moved to Yellowknife at a young age. When the term Slavey was used around Clara, I found it a little offensive myself. Since I have Native American roots myself as I'm part Mi'kmaq from my maternal side, I know that the terms South Slavey and North Slavey in referring to peoples of the Deh Cho and Sahtu regions respectfully are offensive. Usually, Dene Zhatie and Sahtu are appropriate terms for Deh Cho and Sahtu Dene peoples.

[@jfu5222]

Thank you for an important geography lesson.

[@42022coop]

Mahsi from a Proud Dene Tha' member :) this is a good video thank you for correcting him 💜

[@EatRadioWire]

Mahsi! I usually call it "the big lake" or Tucho. I like Tucho because it means big/great water in most local Dene dialects and because it matches with Dehcho.

[@gianfunk9121]

Definitely Proud to be Canadian and living in such a beautiful place. As an avid fisherman I absolutely love living in manitoba and being on the water and having so many lakes to explore is a dream come true.

[@SignoreGalilei]

That's awesome! Glad you're enjoying the lakes.

[@gregkosinski2303]

It’s a shame with Trudeau has done to Canada.

[@evergreenappreciator]

I flew over Great Slave Lake while flying from the US east coast to Japan in mid November. Though the cabin was dimmed and everyone else was sleeping, flying west it was fully sunny and I couldn't help staring out the window. I had a blanket over me to block the light from everyone else! I could see the northeast arm with its many islands, all of the lesser pothole lakes were already frozen but that deep blue of the still-melted Slave lake I'll never forget. I could even see convection circles cracking/thinning the ice on the lesser frozen ponds. Absolutely mesmerizing and I hope to get up there someday!

[@rb239rtr]

I grew up in Yellowknife, Hay River and further south, Fort Smith on the Slave River, but since, our entire family moved south. In 2007, we brought our mom's ashes to be buried in Ft Smith, we camped in Hay RIver, at a campground on Great Slave Lake. We saw some commercial fishing boats coming in, we knew where their docks are, went and bought fish off the boat. It was a good trip. It is definitely a place to visit.

[@RollyCoaster]

Darn, Yathkyed Lake in Nunavut doesn't meet the criteria. It's home to the only lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world. There's also an island inside that lake, which is another record.

[@SignoreGalilei]

That's pretty neat.

[@Chrishm0]

Somebody's been watching QI.....But is really quite interesting.

[@RollyCoaster]

@@Chrishm0 actually, I just found the Wikipedia page on recursive lakes and islands lol

[@TheUKNutter]

@@Chrishm0I believe Vsauce covered it as well, another channel with strange facts on it.

[@colinsteadland]

The northwest angle can also be accessed by ice during the winter. Lake of the woods becomes one of the largest non-permanent highways in the country during the winter months

[@SignoreGalilei]

Cool!

[@kennethkundrik1056]

Thank you for this, very interesting. I find it very interesting that most of the lakes are on an arc on the edge of the shield.

[@SignoreGalilei]

It is pretty cool. I think it has to do with the glaciers ending there but I'm not 100% sure of the mechanism.

[@saw7191]

It’s great to see you get more views on your videos! Keep it up!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks! Here's hoping.

[@adrielvenne985]

There should be a video on the city of Sudbury in Ontario. The city of lakes has over 300 lakes within it's borders and has the world's largest lake completely within one municipality.

[@SignoreGalilei]

That sounds cool.

[@frostyriffs]

That would be Lake Wanapitei which was created by a meteor. That crash extended underground to the Temagami region and creating the Temagami Anomaly. Check it out for yourselves for some really cool facts about that entire area and pre Cambrian rock formation.

[@georgeheld1901]

I’ve been doing research on the big but shallow reservoirs along the Missouri River, pretty cool to find a channel with some vids on lakes :)

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@silverjohn6037]

Since you mentioned the meaning of several of the lake's names, Lake Manitoba is a supposedly an corruption of of Manitou Wa'ba or Spirit Voices. It refers to a formation of rocks that had particularly eerie sound when waves struck it in a storm.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

[@SamuraiPoohBear]

what rock formation?

[@silverjohn6037]

@@SamuraiPoohBear Never been there myself but it's supposedly north end of Lake Manitoba. Something I was taught back in high school back in the 70's.

[@richardglady3009]

Thank you for another great geography lesson. You got a new subscriber.

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome, thanks for the sub!

[@straightupninja]

The amount of geological activity is mind blowing and awesome!

[@ilzambongo1401]

What a good job, Signore. Spettacolare! I'd love to fly above both Slave and Bear lakes. It'd be fascinating. Canada's geography is fascinating.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Grazie! I agree, they must be very impressive lakes from the air.

[@dr.woozie7500]

Thanks for the knowledge on these lakes. There's barely any information on them, even Wikipedia has very short entries for them compared to the Great Lakes.

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome! The Canadian Encyclopedia helped out on some of these.

[@coyote4237]

Thank you again for the great content.

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome again!

[@ChicoDusty]

Great video! More lake videos please!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks! I'm not yet sure which topic will be next, but the lake videos have been doing pretty well and people seem to like them.

[@mathlover4994]

Knowing how small Canadas population is and how many Lakes they got, we can safely say Canada will never lack of water.

[@Seeyeay]

Except our government allows nestle to buy up a lot of our water.

[@theshit2000]

Yet, we have many communities that lack potable water.

[@GeorgeEarlAlvarezIII-xm2hk]

All the means for integration or invasion

[@corymoore2292]

But they only have one road in Canada which is why most of the lakes are fly in only.

[@spytf2-pb3yo]

​@@corymoore2292As a canadian, I can assure you that we have at least 3 roads

[@ironleegaming8227]

Yeah, we have lots of lakes in manitoba. It's pretty cool. We worked pretty hard on them.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Nice job!

[@thedarkgreenvanman]

Absolutely incredible, I loved every minute of this

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@piatra1277]

Thank you for adding the metric system !

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome!

[@williamlloyd3769]

Lake Corcoran is an ancient lake that covered the Central Valley of California. This lake would make an interesting video! PS - Thanks for producing this video on the other “great” lakes!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Sounds like a cool ancient lake. And you're welcome!

[@rogerballoujr.6244]

I was not expecting that Lake Champlain would be omitted from this list considering one of its nicknames is the 6th Great Lake.

[@jono8181]

Champlain is in the previous video in this series.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yep, it's in the previous video.

[@rogerballoujr.6244]

@@SignoreGalilei okay, stumbled on this vid by chance so had no idea Champlain was already discussed.

[@SignoreGalilei]

@@rogerballoujr.6244 Totally fine! Just wanted to point you to somewhere you might want to look next :)

[@viracocha03]

Very cool video. Glad I stumbled on the channel. I just moved to Nova Scotia from Ontario and man is there so many lakes around me, some really are "great" maybe not in size but definitely in beauty. I absolutely love this place. I lived a bit of a sheltered life tho, this move was the first time in my 37 years that I have ever left Ontario.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks! I've only been to Nova Scotia briefly (to visit the Joggins Fossil Cliffs) but the part where I was looked very beautiful.

[@viracocha03]

@@SignoreGalilei Thats awesome. I believe that is near Moncton, a couple hours north of me, close to some family friends. Looks like a very cool place to visit. Thanks for the response.

[@SignoreGalilei]

@@viracocha03 You're welcome!

[@WilliamAndrea]

Yup, Dartmouth is the City of Lakes and it's just chock full of 'em. And then, notably there's Bras d'Or Lake (estuary) which is pretty darn big relative to the size of the province, and Kejimkujik, as dark as tea, with the national park.

[@sarougeau]

Lake manitoba is beautiful and I'd highly recommend Meindel park in twins beaches. The southern basin has lots of amazing marshland bordering it that is a wonderful sight year round.

[@chrisbailey9377]

No they're just good lakes.

[@paulpursell4177]

Their ok lakes

[@emp100k]

I had for a long time noticed the strange amount of huge lakes lying in the USA and Canada along that north western diagonal line so I guess it is due to the Canadian shield and the glaciation that all these huge lakes are pretty much lined up a in a row?

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah it's the edge of the glaciers and the type of rock exposed when they melted, as far as I understand it.

[@nornibres]

Loved this video. I am a resident of Manitoba and can tell you we refer to Lake Winnipeg as an inland sea. The views from Gimli MB. looking across the lake are spectacular. I met an American tourist a few years ago on the southern tip of Lake Manitoba at Delta beach looking north and marveling at the site. thanks for the video.

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome! I'd love to see it myself some time.

[@CanadaBricks]

A Sequel! I was hoping for one!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Glad you like it! A lot of people in the comments had more lakes they wanted to hear about so I decided to go for it.

[@adcraziness1501]

They are all great lakes if you ask me. I got to see Newfoundland from the air once, there were so many lakes! It was amazing.

[@SignoreGalilei]

It sounds amazing! It's a very cool landscape.

[@SylviusTheMad]

I used to work with a guy who flew up to Lake Athabasca to go fishing every summer. He had a small plane, and while there are no airports in the region, there used to be. An abandoned runway at the ghost town of Uranium City is only partially overgrown, so he used to land there. At least that's the story he would tell. Now that I write it down it seems far-fetched.

[@jono8181]

Uranium City airport is not abandoned and people still live there. It still has a regular scheduled flight from Rise Air.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah it's much smaller than it once was but it's not abandoned completely. Maybe he meant a different airport?

[@DrachenGothik666]

Yay, first lake pictured (though not the 1st spoken about) was my own Lake Winnipeg! I grew up in the city of Winnipeg and we used to go up there every summer to swim and camp. Gorgeous wetlands, hiking, woodlands, and fishing. You could sometimes even see a faint display of the Northern lights in the summer if the sunspots were in an active year. I liked to think of Manitoba's three big lakes as our own Great Lakes system.💚

[@SignoreGalilei]

That's awesome, glad I could show people your local lakes!

[@sarougeau]

I still to go to Lake Manitoba every summer and I agree. Some of the best memories were canoeing/snowshoeing out in the marshes and seeing wildlife. There are lots of beaver damns in Lake Francis.

[@brian8410]

Too bad about all the sewage that makes its way into that lake. By mid summer most of L Winnipegs 's beaches are warned for swim at own risk or not at all.

[@scottstobbe]

Great video. Some non-aerial photos/videos of these lakes would have been a nice touch.

[@SignoreGalilei]

A few people have commented about that, yeah. Might be good for the future.

[@toomanyjstoomanyrs1705]

Super interesting. Thank you.

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome!

[@jamespoker87]

Another good lake to have mentioned was Tulare Lake. It didn’t meet the size requirement but it was the largest lake west of the great lakes. (in the united states that is) It unfortunately dried up after its tributaries were diverted for agriculture.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Cool, thanks for sharing!

[@oliverclothesoff5397]

The Hudson Bay should be considered a small ocean. It's massive. It almost looks like a huge lake

[@SignoreGalilei]

It's also very shallow if I recall. It's quite a strange body of water.

[@northlander4370]

It is just Hudson Bay ...not :the" hudson bay

[@zmarc-]

going backpacking by the manicouagan resevoir this march. super excited !!

[@andrewlast1535]

I’ve fished Slave several times and briefly was at Bear. All I can think of is how the fishing is in all these lakes and how much they have been explored? Such an amazing place.

[@Alaskancrabpuffs21]

As someone who has fished Lake of the Woods extensively I can't imagine the fishing in some of the remote lakes in Ontario and Manitoba. Let alone the lakes in the territories. Probably world class fishing there.

[@andrewlast1535]

@@Alaskancrabpuffs21 I have never been to Lake of the Woods. It has been on my bucket list forever.

[@vvxsdfczdy9888]

How cow dude totally have so much respect that you actually listen and chat back to your subscribers is amazing

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks! It's getting a little harder with the number increasing but I'll still try my best.

[@alexlandsbergs]

I feel like it would have been worth mentioning the athabaska sand dunes are the most northern sand dunes in the world. when people think of sand dunes, they think of the sahara. they dont think about some of the northern most part of saskatchewan lol. I know thats slightly off topic but still.

[@SignoreGalilei]

They're the largest ones that far north but there are a few in Alaska that are further north.

[@therealchimp1516]

You have to hit the African Great Lakes next 🙏🏾

[@SignoreGalilei]

It would be a good one.

[@6974]

thank you for talking about lake Diefenbaker

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome!

[@tiae.475]

Great video!👍🏻

[@macafreshie]

VIBE BOMB

[@SignoreGalilei]

Cool thanks

[@aaronmarks9366]

Those 4.25 billion year old rocks in the Canadian shield were already unimaginably ancient when the Cambrian explosion began. Totally mindblowing.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah! It's crazy how long this landmass has existed.

[@copperthedragon870]

What a fun way to start the morning!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@Shawn666Hellion]

Any lake with a horizon is a huge lake,excellent video

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@appa609]

Canada has the most and biggest lakes. It has more lakes than the rest of the world. You can almost define the territory of Canada as "the part of North America with a ton of glacial lakes"

[@SignoreGalilei]

It is indeed one of Canada's defining features

[@savannaha5038]

Well, the Caspian Sea is actually a lake! So not quite the biggest, but pretty close. The Aral sea was also bigger than any Canadian lake (I think) before it was dried up by the Soviets.

[@jaquigreenlees]

@@savannaha5038 The real reason Canada's lake are so fantastic is you can drink the water straight from almost all of them. Even now with the industrialization along most lakes the water is clean enough you can scoop it up in your hand and drink. That is a wealth many countries lack.

[@grimrot]

@@jaquigreenlees lol you're kind of exaggerating there... you might wanna filter that first, yes they are mostly free from chemical pollutants, but there are still all kinds of bacteria and parasites that you would want to filter out! I go backcountry camping in the Canadian Shield. Trust me I know hahah

[@jasonreed7522]

@@jaquigreenlees all water in the wilderness should be sterilized before consumption, it may be a low risk but its still a risk that any stream, pond, or lake has a harmful pathogen in it that can make you VERY sick. (A deer could have pooped in the water just around that bend in the creek upstream of where you are drinking, just boil your water first.)

[@christiandevey3898]

2:48 you said Continental US when I think you mean Contiguous. The difference is that Alaska is on the continent but not contiguous with the other states

[@SignoreGalilei]

Well the Northwest Angle isn't contiguous with the rest of the 48. Maybe I should have said "48 contiguous states" or something though.

[@christiandevey3898]

@@SignoreGalilei It's as contiguous as, if not more than, places like long Island. Also I just remembered the term "Lower 48" witch would have worked

[@SignoreGalilei]

@@christiandevey3898 Yeah, that might have worked.

[@jango7889]

9.99k subscribers as I type this, 10k very soon, you deserve it. Great content.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks so much!

[@spaceclouds5156]

you were at 9.99k subs when i started watching this video, now you are at 10k. Congrats

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@themightyeagle21]

My favorite fact about the Caspian Sea and The Great Lakes is that the only reason that The Great Lakes aren’t seas is because they are salt water, and that the Caspian Sea is a Sea because it’s salt water. So if those two facts were swapped, things would be much different lol

[@SignoreGalilei]

Maybe yeah. The Sea of Galilee is freshwater but honestly not sure there's a good reason that it's a sea at all besides just history.

[@flare2000x]

I think technically the Caspian Sea should be the largest lake.

[@blackwidowsm]

@@flare2000xIt is the largest lake, lake baikal, Siberia is largest by water volume. By land it’s the water acreage it’s Caspian Sea. Fresh water acreage is Lake Superior.

[@SupahTrunks7]

I, for one, support the renaming of “Great Slave Lake” to the indigenous name Tucho bc then I will finally be able to say the name of the lake without feeling weird

[@Rancid-Jane]

Some say it Slavey. But still it needs changed.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah. There's another commenter here who had some more information about the different indigenous names that people could use for it. It's the one who's mentioned in the bonus info in the description.

[@DrNutbag]

Great video! I came simply to hear about the lakes of my beautiful home of Manitoba. It’s a point of pride to me to point to a map of people that have never heard of it and they see the inland seas and 100,000 lakes.

[@SignoreGalilei]

It is very cool.

[@RealMajora]

Amazing sequel

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@P-B-G_YT]

It appears the Great Lakes, and arc of lakes across northern North America, and the Saint Lawrence Seaway, are stretch marks that will eventually become a new ocean. Eastern Canada may split away like Greenland and become a separate 'continent'.

[@SignoreGalilei]

They've been a separate continent at times in the past, they might in the future too

[@DinkyWaffle]

they’re all glacial so no, they’re just in places that were glaciated during the last ice age and therefore cut deep enough to hold water

[@P-B-G_YT]

@@DinkyWaffle Think rift valley like in east Africa, but much wider, and slower forming. They're stretch marks.

[@ericromano8078]

@@DinkyWaffle is right. They aren't stretch marks, the continent isn't splitting along that line. This is 100% a result of glaciers carving out the ground.

[@benparrish9547]

Isn’t that area uplifting? Like the ice weighed the ground and compressed it so it’s slowly rising to its “natural” thawed position

[@thecooldude71]

Great video but damn I was looking forward to good b roll footage of these gorgeous lakes but you had none

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah, sorry about that. A lot of people have had the same comment.

[@carsonwieker]

Great video and research, thank you, cheers!

[@ericwoody22]

Thank you so much for shedding g light on how many great lakes this great country of Canada has!!!

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome!

[@devonmanik127]

Awesome vid! You should cover Lake Hazen on northern Ellesmere Island! It’s almost at the North Pole

[@SignoreGalilei]

Sounds like a cool lake!

[@jargobordine7254]

Nice video dude.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@craigcrawford6749]

I used to work at Wollaston as a carpenter in the 80's. Flew in and out of a small bush landing strip on an Indian reservation. Or on float planes. Loved it

[@mytech6779]

Being in a shallow formation(an ancient extra large lake bed), the Great Salt Lake has large fluctuations in surface area with small changes in depth. I went through there in the late 1990s and it was so full they were diverting water into the western salt desert to avoid flooding problems around the lake. The whole area that is normally used for land speed records was under about 6 inches of water.

[@SignoreGalilei]

I read about that, it must have been so cool to actually see it!

[@Pryexel]

2:26 I was always so confused by why my state had that weird point at the top. And I know why. Thank you!

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome!

[@crazyjimheath]

awesome stuff !!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@timfriday9106]

i just randomly got reccomended this video and I have to say, I really freaking enjoyed it man. got a like an sub from me 4sure. =D

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks so much, glad you liked it!

[@bparazin2392]

Such a cool video!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@bigboyman5743]

finally we get to see a sequel!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah! I figured people would appreciate it

[@paul06660]

Consider doing a video on the White River lakes of Northern Arkansas, Southern Missouri. Beaver, Table Rock, Taneycomo, and Bull Shoals are all members of this group and each one has quite the history as why they were built, aside from power generation. Plenty of historical photos online that would make for a great video doing the same style you did in this one.

[@SignoreGalilei]

I haven't done a lot of videos on that narrow of a region but it does sound like a cool place. I'd be more than happy for anyone to talk about lakes they personally connect with.

[@AWSMcube]

I've always been fascinated by the shape of Lake Mistassini in Quebec

[@SignoreGalilei]

It's really an odd shape, yeah. It's at the edge of some igneous rock formations but I'm not sure exactly why it got so long and skinny.

[@4945three]

Water, water every where. Thank you for sharing your gift of understanding the magnificence of creation.

[@SignoreGalilei]

You're welcome!

Now we need to learn about the lakes of south america as well! :)

[@SignoreGalilei]

There's only a few above the same size cutoff but maybe I'll set it smaller for South America.

[@TheDecree93]

Cool video idea!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@janusn9]

Geez, you know youre right. I cant remember the last time I popped up to the frozen tundra for some fun in the lakes up there. I cant imagine why more people dont make it up there.

[@BCMBloop]

That hpd promo 🔥💯