An entire aboriginal community of 800 people in central Canada will be evacuated Saturday after a local river threatened to flood the community, local media reported.

The entire Red Earth reserve in northeastern Saskatchewan will be evacuated, following 300 people who have been retreated Friday after an ice jam caused the Carrot River to rise recently.

The Saskatchewan Watershed Authority was predicting flooding as early as Saturday and the water may not recede to safe levels until Wednesday.

Red Earth is located about 240 kilometers northeast of Saskatoon, near the Manitoba border.

Meanwhile, heavy spring runoff has swelled several rivers in the country's central provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, eating up fertile farmland and leaving residents coping with major flooding.

The Red River, which swelled to its second highest level in 40 years, has submerged 40,000 hectares of farmland in southern Manitoba.

The situation has drawn attention from federal leaders, who gathered in an endangered town of Emerson to inspect river levels and ring dikes.

A rural municipality south of Winnipeg in the Red River Valley, Montcalm, was under a state of emergency Friday after flooding throughout the region left the area waterlogged.

Flood warnings have also been issued for parts of central Saskatchewan where farmers' fields are under water and some roads are washed out.

Source: Xinhua