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Brightsand River Provincial Park is a linear waterway park that includes a 200 metres (660 ft) wide strip of land on both sides of roughly 130 kilometres (81 mi) long section of the Brightsand River and its lakes, from Aylsworth Lake (near the Graham Road crossing) to its mouth at the
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