620 THE ADVOCATE
VOL. 79 PART 4 JULY 2021
so named is because hardly anyone
can spell, much less pronounce,
prothonotary.
Robert McDiarmid, Q.C.
Kamloops
Dear Editor,
Re: “Bench and Bar”
(2021) 79 Advocate 305
The March 2021 edition contains
a glaring geography error at p. 316,
where you claim that the Yukon
River is the longest in Canada at
3,185 km.
You got the distance correct, but
the Yukon is the second longest
river starting in Canada, though
over half of its distance and its
839,200 km2 watershed lies in
Alaska.
The longest Canadian river is
the Mackenzie at 4,241 km and a
watershed of 1,805,200 km2, all in
Canada.
Judge M.J. Brecknell
Prince George