Peace River

Peace River, initially named Peace River is a town in northwestern Alberta, Canada, arranged along the banks of the Peace River, at its conversion with the Smoky River, the Heart River and Pat's Creek. It is found 486 kilometers 302 mi northwest of Edmonton, and 198 kilometers 123 mi upper east of Grande Prairie, along Highway 2. It was known as the Village of Peace River Crossing somewhere in the range of 1914 and 1916.

The Peace River townsite is almost 1,000 feet 300 m beneath the moderately level territory encompassing it. Pat's Creek used to be an open channel through the town yet is presently directed however a course under the town lanes, re-developing at the mouth on the Peace River at the Riverfront Park. The populace in the Town of Peace River was 6,729 of every 2011, a 6.6% expansion over its 2006 population.

There are critical nodal settlements and subdivisions in the region of the town on acreages along Highway 2 toward the west, Highways 684 Shaftesbury Trail and 743 and also the southwest segment of Northern Sunrise County. Provincially, there are different First Nation people group toward the upper east, French-Canadian cultivating networks toward the south and toward the east, and Mennonite and Hutterite German-Canadian cultivating networks toward the north and northwest of the town.