Peace River Regional District Regional District
The Peace River Regional District (PRRD) in British Columbia is the largest regional district in the province, encompassing approximately twelve million hectares (119, 337 square kilometers). The PRRD was established in 1967, and its history is rich and varied. The region was first inhabited by First Nations peoples for thousands of years, and the first European explorers arrived in the early 1800s. The fur trade was the first major economic activity in the region, followed by agriculture and forestry. In the early 20th century, the discovery of oil and gas in the Peace River region led to a new wave of economic development.
Mapped Location
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Information
General information on Peace River Regional District
- Feature Type: Regional District
- Regional District Administrative Centre: City of Dawson Creek
- Established: Tuesday, October 31, 1967
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Peace River Regional District
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Peace River Regional District | Official |
A Selected Bibliography of Peace River Regional District, Regional District
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Dawson Creek, past and present an historical sketch by M. E. Coutts
M. E. Coutts’s Dawson Creek, Past and Present chronicles the dramatic evolution of a remote agrarian outpost situated on the grueling ecological frontier where the fertile Peace River prairies collide with the unforgiving boreal wilderness of northern British Columbia. The narrative maps how profound continental isolation and punishing subarctic winters initially restricted early pioneers to localized survival, completely severed from southern markets by vast expanses of impenetrable muskeg and rugged alpine barriers. By detailing the explosive military engineering of the Alaska Highway, the text illustrates how the urgent geopolitical necessity to bridge these massive northern distances drove the rapid construction of an unprecedented overland transit corridor. Ultimately, the account demonstrates that deploying mechanized infrastructure to conquer this harsh, landlocked geography was the absolute prerequisite for transforming an isolated prairie settlement into the vital, industrialized gateway to the subarctic frontier.
115 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Non-circulating [ 1 ]
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University of Northern British Columbia: Northern BC Digital Collection
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Peace River Regional District
- Altona
- Arras
- Attachie
- Baldonnel
- Bear Flat
- Beatton Ranch
- Beryl Prairie
- Bessborough
- Boring Ranch
- Brady Ranch
- Briar Ridge
- Buckinghorse River
- Buick
- Cecil Lake
- Charlie Lake
- District of Chetwynd
- Clairmont
- Clayhurst
- City of Dawson Creek
- Doe River
- Doig River
- Dokie Siding
- East Pine
- Farmington
- Farrell Creek
- Federal Ranch
- Fellers Heights
- Flatrock
- City of Fort St. John
- Fort Ware
- Goodlow
- Grand Haven
- Groundbirch
- Gundy
- Halfway Ranch
- Hasler Flat
- Hickethier Ranch
- District of Hudson's Hope
- Hudson's Hope
- Ingenika Mine
- Kelly Lake
- Kilkerran
- Kobes
- Lemoray
- Lexau Ranch
- Lone Prairie
- Lynx Creek
- Mason Creek
- McKearney Ranch
- McLean Ranch
- Mile 62 1/2
- Moberly Lake
- Montney
- Murdale
- North Pine
- Old Fort
- Osborn
- Parkland
- Peejay
- Pine Valley
- Pineview
- Pink Mountain
- Village of Pouce Coupe
- Prespatou
- Progress
- Rolla
- Rose Prairie
- Seven Mile Corner
- Shearer Dale
- Sikanni Chief
- Simpson Ranch
- South Dawson
- South Taylor
- Sunrise Valley
- Sunset Prairie
- Sweetwater
- District of Taylor
- Tomslake
- Tower Lake
- Trutch
- Tsay Keh Dene
- District of Tumbler Ridge
- Tumbler Ridge
- Tupper
- Twidwell Bend
- Two Rivers
- Upper Cutbank
- Upper Halfway
- Valley View
- Wagner Ranch
- Ware
- Willow Valley
- Willowbrook
- Wonowon
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2023-08-03