Kiskatinaw River

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Kiskatinaw
Origin	Canadian Rockies Foothills, Thumbler Ridge
Mouth	Peace River
Basin countries	Canada
Source elevation	1,070 m (3,510 ft)
Mouth elevation	395 m (1,296 ft)

Kiskatinaw is a small river in north-eastern British Columbia, Canada.

It is a tributary of the Peace River.

The Kiskatinaw Provincial Park is established on the banks of the river, east of the Alaska Highway, along the old alignment of the highway, at the site of a curved wooden bridge.^[1] The bridge was built during the Second World War, when the Alaska Highway was started. Due to a hairpin curve, the bridge, which took nine months to be completed, was constructed in a curved shape.^[2]

Fishing for pike and rainbow trout is an attraction on the lower course of the river.^[3]

The river gives the name to the Kiskatinaw Formation, a siliciclastic formation of Carboniferous (Mississippian) age.

[edit] Course

The river originates in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, at an elevation of approximately 1,070 m (3,510 ft). It flows north and east, where it receives the waters of Sunderman Creek, the north, flowing by One Island Lake Provincial Park, after which it merges with the West Kiskatinaw River. It continues north trough the Upper Cutbank, then receives the Brassey Creek. It parallels Highway 52, west of Bear Mountain. It is crossed by Highway 97 and then by the Alaska Highway before it turns north-east. It then flows through a canyon until it merges into the Peace River. It flows into the Peace River west of the Alberta/British Columbia, within the limits of the Peace River Corridor Provincial Park, east of Taylor.

[edit] See also

• List of rivers in Canada
• List of British Columbia rivers

[edit] References

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