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British Columbia, Fort St. John
Fort St. John is a town in the northeast of British Columbia, Canada. As a member community of the Peace River Regional District, the town covers a surface area of approximately 22 km2 with 18,609 inhabitants in the 2011 census[2] and is one of the biggest towns along the Alaska Highway.
Founded in 1794 as a trade station, Fort St. John is the oldest European village in what is now British Columbia. Forth St. John is operated from Fort St. John Airport. It has a municipality tagline Fort St. John: The Energetic City. Ancient banner of Ft. St. John. In 1860, after almost forty years, Fort St. John was re-opened on the southern side of the Peace River, just South of today's town.
In 1872 it was brought directly across the stream by Francis Work Beatton. That fellowship continued until 1925, when the stream stopped being the major road of traffic and the fort drew nearer to the places where settler farmsteads were built. This new city was built at Fish Creek, north-west of the present municipality, on the new road to Fort Nelson.
Inhabitants of Fort St. John, 1976-2006. In 1951 the first nationwide enumeration, which included Fort St. John as a distinct division, included 884 persons. Fort St. John, however, has succeeded in becoming the biggest town in BC Peacemaking and the second biggest after Grande Prairie in the whole Peacemaking area, which crosses the border between the BC and Alberta states.
The average ages show that the town is almost ten years younger than the province average and less than half of the town' s over-65s. Of the Canadians, 94% were native Canadians and 93% were native English speakers.
Criminality at Fort St. John, 1984-2005. Situated on the plateaus just south of the Peace River, Fort St. John enjoys a cool, humid Continentale weather (near the subarctic), with cool winter and hot midsummer. Even though winter can be chilly, the area has more mild winter than the remainder of Canada (especially considering its relatively northern latitude) due to the impact of the Rocky Mountains near by.
15 ] Fort St. John uses the Mountain Standard Time (like Pacific Dayslight Time in summer) all year round and enjoys shorter daytime periods in winters and longer in summers due to its northern part. Located eastwards of the Rocky Mountain, Fort St. John has a much more prairie-like atmosphere than the interior of British Columbia westwards of the fell.
Non-freezing periods are much longer eastward of the mountain than westward, and so the Peace River area includes Fort St. John can produce harvests that cannot be cultivated in most provinces, such as grain and rape. streams, watercourses and traffic infrastructures around the town. The Fort St. John is the traffic junction of the area.
Hwy 97 (Alaska Highway), constructed by the US Army in 1942, crosses the town to the northern side of Fort Nelson, the Yukon and Alaska. When it crossed the Peace Riviera to Dawson Creek, it relieved the community's dependency on the Riviera for tranport. Inside the town, the streets are arranged in a raster.
Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson's only business hub is Fort St. John International Airports (CYXJ), a few kilometers due the eastern side of town. It has two runways, and includes two smaller carriers such as Central Mountain and Swanberg with regular airline services, and North Cariboo with charter services.
There are Greyhound buses that have a stop in the town, running along the motorway, heading to Whitehorse northbound ("via Fort Nelson") and southbound to Dawson Creek. Sewers and sewers in the town pump bottled waters from 4 wells near the Peace River, a reserve spring being Charlie Lake;[23] it is screened, chlorinized and fluorinated before it is used.
Situated to the southwest of the town, the laguna discharges treated wastewater into the Peace River and the laguna just off the town into the Beatton River. There are volunteers and professionals who cover the town plus five mile (...) to the outback. In Centennial Park, many of these institutions are centrally located near residential buildings and shops.
The large grounds include the Fort St. John North Peace Museum,[24] the North Peace Leisure Pool, the North Peace Arenas (home of Fort St. John Huskies), a dedicated children's playground, an 8-blade ice stick track, an open-air aquatic centre and a fast-ride coval. The North Peace Cultural Centre, which hosts the Fort St. John Public Library, a theater and the Peace Galery North Kunstgalerie, is located in the centre of the city.
Pomeroy Sport Center, formerly Fort St. John Enerplex, opened in 2010, is the city's most important recreational area. 25 ] The institution also hosts the Energetic Learning Camp, a satelite campsite of the North Peace Secondary School near by. Fort St. John was host of the BC Winter Games 1984 and the Northern BC Winter Games 1975, 1976, 1994, 2000 and 2007.
The Great Canadian Welding Competition takes place every August in Fort St. John, where the Centennial Park is filled with sculptures on the year. There are 98 broadcasters that broadcast from Fort St. John. Fort St. John has several communities websites with messages, fun, sports, classified ads and socialites.
Fort St. John is an economic, services and industry center for a country and peasant community of about 8,306 and 18,609 inhabitants. There is the petroleum and natural-gas industries in the province[27], which includes the regional commission for crude petroleum and natural-gas. Since the opening of a factory for orientated fibreboard in 2005, forest management has gained in importance for the town.
Located in Peace River North, Fort St. John is defended by Pat Pimm in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. In the 1991 legislative assembly elections, the BC Social Credit Party received 56% of the vote in the Fort St. John elections[32] and was re-elected in 1996 for the Reform BC with 44% support[33] and for the BC Liberal Party in 2001 and 2005 with 73%[34] and 59%[35] respectively.
Canadian Statistics Police Services Division, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Province of British Columbia (2005) Communicipal and Provincial Police Strength, 1996-2005 Seite 97. a ^ a d e Statistique Canada, Comunité Highlights für Fort St. John, 2001 Communities Profiles, 20. février 2007. Communitys du Recensement de 2011, Statistique Canada - Subdivision de recensement.
Environment Canada, Fort St. John A, British Columbia, Canadian Climate Normals 1971-2000, December 1, 2006. Environmental Canada Environmental Canada Fort St. John A, British Columbia. Environmental Canada Fort St. John A, British Columbia. Environmental Canada Fort St John. Environmental Canada Environmental Canada Local election results, Fort St. John Now!
School District No. 60 (British Columbia) BY-LAW NO. School District No. 60 (Peace River North), February 22, 2006. Elections BC (1991) Peace River North Electoral District Poll-by-Poll Results Filed 2008-05-07 at the Wayback Machine. Elections BC (1996) Peace River North Electoral District Filed 2008-05-07 at Wayback Machine.
Elections de la Colombie-Britannique (2001) Peace River North Electoral District Archiviert 2008-04-11 an der Wayback Machine. Elections BC (2005) Peace River South Electoral District (pdf) Archived on September 27, 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Canada elections 36: and 37: general elections: Survey Results, Canada Elections On-Line|General Information, January 22, 2006.
Peace River South Electoral District " (PDF). Climate information was collected in the town of Fort St. John from January 1910 to February 1945 and at Fort St. John Airport from March 1942 to the present day.