It's name is the French form of the Algonquin word for "where the river narrows", a reference to the St. Lawrence
- Provinces - CAQL [PAR] Alberta is the westernmost of the three Prairie provinces, with its western .... 
Named from an Algonquian word meaning "where the river narrows", a reference 
to the ... but the population is concentrated in the St. Lawrence Lowlands in the 
south.