would be a most important consideration.
It was late in October when we arrived at Peace River Crossing and speed became essential as ice would shortly be forming on the River and traveling by Canoe, our chosen method, would their be extremely dangerous, or impossible.
Peace River Crossing, a town situated on the Peace River, was one of the main jumping off places for the whole of the North Country as far as the Arctic Sea, and was consequently of great importance.
The Peace River – (roughly 900 to 1000 miles in length, from its source at the junction of the Parsnip and Finlay Rivers) to where it emptied into the Slave River, ran practically due East and West for two thirds of its length, but from that latter junction there was a
