By Dorthea CalverleyThe plans to make Dunvegan a great city have been well publicized. It is less widely known that’ Grouardians’ had much the same sort of dreams when the railroad was approaching. Grouard had been a busy steamer port for years, and promoters assumed that the railroad would come to the settlement. Or, perhaps,… Read More

On the afternoon of May 11, 1793 Alexander Mackenzie became the first white man to see what we now know as Dunvegan. In March of 1804, David Thompson described it as “a good place for camping”. Dunvegan was named by a MacLeod of Skye after the ancestral home of the MacLeods. It was one of… Read More

By Margaret Loggie“To Dunvegan we came, very willing to be at rest, and found our fatigue amply recompensed by your reception.” Johnson – – – The Western Islands (1173) These words might well have been written by many an early traveler on the Peace River. For over a century Dunvegan was the best known fort… Read More

Story contributed by T. C. Hazel of Nampa, AlbertaWhen Jack Miller, a 70 year old farmer in the Dunvegan district, was suddenly taken ill in the winter of 1933-1934 the country had just been blanketed with a heavy fall of snow and the weather had turned bitterly cold. Medical aid was urgently needed and the… Read More

The first settlers north of the Peace River arrived in the last few years before the First World War. The trail to Dunvegan brought the settlers past a watering hole 4 miles south of the present site of Fairview. There a hamlet appropriately named “Waterhole” sprang into existence and served as a centre for the… Read More

Three-hundred road miles northwest of Edmonton the Town of Peace River forms a geographical centre and focal point for the northern part of the province and a jumping off point for the Northwest Territories. The town is ideally situated in a most scenic valley at the junction of the Smoky and Peace Rivers which provide… Read More

Cross-posted: 14-031: From Edmonton to Pouce Coupe Five hundred miles through Canada’s newest west – a province in itselfThis article is taken from the Family Herald and Weekly Star, Aug 19, 1925 By our Special Commissioner Peace River Valley had its genesis as a settlement in the Klondike gold rush. In their efforts to discover… Read More