Portage Mountain

PORTAGE MOUNTAIN (el 1,429 m), 85 km west of FORT ST JOHN, forms a natural obstacle to the flow of the PEACE R, which has worn a deep canyon around its southern edge. The powerful rapids that once existed at this site, before the BENNETT and Peace Canyon dams flooded the region and raised the water level, required early river travellers to make a lengthy detour. Portage Mt was also the name of one of the huge construction camps that housed thousands of workers during the building of the...

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