Peace River


PEACE RIVER flows from WILLISTON RESERVOIR east through the ROCKY MTS, across the provincial boundary and out onto the rolling lowlands and high prairie of northern Alberta, where it eventually joins the Slave R near Athabasca Lk 1,923 km from its source. With the headwaters of its source rivers in the Omineca Mts east of the ROCKY MT TRENCH, it is the only river on the continent that flows completely through the entire Rocky Mt range. The BC portion drains a watershed 99,000 sq km. Major...

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