Next stop Ft. St. John, where we left the Alcan and Hudson’s Hope loop, through the Peace River canyon. There was a great little exhibit in the town of Hudson’s Hope which told us: It was first visited by Alexander Mackenzie in 1793, Simon Frazier of The Northwest Company established a trading post there in 1805 and in 1821 the Hudson’s Bay Company took over operations.
It was a gorgeous drive through the canyons carved by the Peace River.
They were about a mile wide, several hundred feet deep, with the roadway undulating up and down the canyon walls. The bottomland was primarily lush green farmland with the blue river meandering from side to side. A potential hydroelectric dam may eliminate this canyon in the future. There are already two dams upstream, the W.A.C. Bennet Dam and the Peace Canyon Dam. There was a lot of protest signage along the roadway, very similar to what we would expect to see it our government wanted to dam a beautiful canyon. We passed Moberly Lake and Chetwynd, home of the International Chainsaw carving championship. There were numerous carvings lining the streets and the town park. Sorry, no pictures but I am sure there are some available online. We then continued on the John Hart Highway paralleling the Crooked River into Prince George.
Travelling with the Schinglers 