Pouce Coupe

POUCE COUPE  () , village, pop 833 (2001), is in the PEACE R country, 10 km south of DAWSON CREEK. The name belonged to a SEKANI leader known to the early FUR TRADERS. It is located on a fertile prairie where the Dawson Crk flows into the Pouce Coupe R. The pioneer settler was Hector Tremblay, a French Canadian attracted to the country in 1898 by the Klondike GOLD RUSH, who established a trading post. The main influx of homesteaders occurred...

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