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	Ft Nelson Canada, Canadian towns
		Fort Nelson is a major Alaska Highway stopover destination and is a comfortable drive from either `Mile 0' at Dawson Creek or Watson Lake in the Yukon.
		Fort Nelson sits at the centre of the Northern Rockies wilderness area, and is becoming known as an eco-adventure destination.
		The Fort Simpson Mackenzie River Route was an alternate in the event of Japanese attack on the Alcan Highway.
	www.bellsalaska.com /ftnelson.html (785 words)

	Roweveg
		The land is a patchwork of lakes and rivers, bogs, swamps and muskeg, with areas of upland barrens and of forest, the characteristic form of the latter being the open, park-like woodland of fl spruce with an associated ground cover of light coloured lichens.
		It is in contact with the riverine forests of the Peace and Slave rivers on the east, with the upper Liard on the west and with the lowlands of Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River on the north, and it encloses an outlier of the Lower Foothills Section (B.19a) on the Caribou Hills.
		It is bounded geographically by the lakes of the Palaeozoic lowlands on the west, and by the appearance of abundant Precambrian rock outcrop on the east and on the north.
	www.mbl.edu /eco42/GIS/Veg/Roweveg.htm (19739 words)

	Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
		Fort Nelson is located at the junction of the Muskwa, Prophet, and Sikanni Chief Rivers, which meet to create the Fort Nelson River.
		Fort Nelson's economy was once based on the fur trade, but the modern thriving community of today relies heavily on lumber and natural gas as the mainstay of its economy, with an increasing emphasis on transportation and tourism.
		Fort Nelson sits at the gateway to the immense wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Alaska, and is fast becoming known as an eco-adventure destination, offering the true outdoor enthusiast some of the most pristine areas in this part of the province.
	www.fortnelsonbc.com (1413 words)

	Fort Nelson
		Fort Nelson, named after Admiral Nelson, was established as a fur trading post in 1805.
		While no longer a fur trading centre, Fort Nelson is still the service centre of the northeastern region of the province with an increasing emphasis on tourism.
		Ribboned with thousands of kikometres of rivers, dotted by hundreds of lakes and crowned by the majestic Rocky Mountains, the area surrounding Fort Nelson is an outdoor enthusiasts delight.
	www.bcadventure.com /adventure/explore/peace/cities/ftnelson.htm (424 words)

	Fort Nelson River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The river drains a watershed of 55,900 square kilometers and is formed by the confluence of the Fontas River flowing from the east, and the Sikanni Chief River flowing from the south.
		The source of the Sekanni Chief, on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, is ultimately the source of the Fort Nelson River.
		The river itself is named for the town of Fort Nelson, established in 1805 by the North West Company as a fur trading post near the river's junction with the Muskwa River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Nelson_River (266 words)

	Dakota Territory Forts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fort Buford was abandoned on October 1, 1895, and the garrison transferred to Fort Assiniboine, Montana.
		Fort James served as one of the chain of posts from Minnesota to the Missouri River to guard the Frontier between the area of settlement and the Sioux country.
		Fort Meade is the home of the national anthem and since 1944 has been used as a hospital by the Veterans Administration.
	www.falmr.org /dakforts.htm (2565 words)

	Kansas Forts, Old West Kansas (KS): Fort Leavenworth, Ft. Hays, Riley, Larned, Dodge, Scott: Western Frontier Fort ...
		Fort Belmont was built about 1860 in a wooded area on Sandy Creek nearby the town of Belmont, Kansas to protect the settlers from the Indians and the Missouri border ruffians.
		Fort Leavenworth had a vital role in the protection of Union interests in Kansas and western Missouri at the beginning of the Civil War, and was an attractive target throughout the war because of its arsenal.
		Fort Zarah was established September 6, 1864 on the banks of Walnut Creek near the crossroads of the Santa Fe Trail, the army supply route from Fort Riley, and the main Indian trail.
	www.vlib.us /old_west/forts.html (4284 words)

	Virginia Forts
		Union Cannon Branch Fort (1864) is preserved along the railroad on the western side of town (on a knoll above Cannon Branch near the airport).
		A CSA four-gun battery on the shore of the Potomac River, its remains are along a walking trail.
		Fort McLean (named after the war) was nearby on the bluff west of the landing, built in June 1861.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/va.html (2157 words)

	Fort Nelson, BC Scene Magazine, Air Highwaysand Africa Travel Magazine Archives
		Situated in the northeast corner of the province the Fort Nelson- Liard Regional District comprises 10% of the land mass of British Columbia, with the town of Fort Nelson its only municipality.
		Fort Nelson is located at Mile 300 on the Alaska Highway, which was constructed by the United States Army.
		Fort Nelson offers a wide range of recreational and cultural amenities for such a small community: a comprehensive library, a community forest, a performing arts/ movie theater, and a museum.
	www.airhighways.com /fort_nelson.htm (1054 words)

	Miles City, Montana : Legacy of Fort Keogh
		Paddleboats on the Yellowstone River, which flows at the base of the buttes behind the fort, carried materials used to construct the buildings from St. Louis, Missouri.
		Other wood came from nearby forests along the river and was milled at a government-constructed sawmill.
		Fort Keogh supplied thousands of horses for World War I. In 1924, the station was turned over to USDA.
	www.ars.usda.gov /Main/docs.htm?docid=6450 (378 words)

	Historic Military Forts of eastern Montana
		The fort was constructed having a rectangle shape.
		The fort is actually located a few miles within the boundary of the state of North Dakota, and is a few miles from the hospitable township of
		I have been advised that the fort's adobe walls have washed, eroded away through-the-years, and that the one-time fort's location is on private land and is available for viewing only after making prior arrangements.
	www.blairranch.com /military_forts.htm (546 words)

	Fishing Montana -- Excerpted from Fishing Montana by Michael Sample
		Paddlefish taken in Fort Peck and the adjoining Missouri River are larger than those taken anywhere else in the country.
		Burbot, or ling, at Fort Peck are mostly caught by ice-fishing in the winter.
		A good day's catch at Fort Peck should yield about three northern pike in the 1- to 30-pound range, your limit of 4-to 5-pound (up to 20-pound) lake trout, four to five channel catfish averaging about 5 pounds, five walleye or sauger averaging 1 to 2 pounds, and a number of perch.
	visitmt.com /falcon/Fishing_Fort_Peck_Reservoir_final.htm (2412 words)

	British Columbia Forts
		An AMTB battery of two 12-pounder quick-firing guns was temporarily located at the Capilano River Spit, near the present-day heliport.
		It was the oldest white settlement on the BC mainland.
		Fort St. John was re-established in 1858 on the north bank of the Peace River, then relocated upstream in 1873 to its present location.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/bc.html (1496 words)

	Dehcho Paddlers Association: Canoeist's Guide to the Liard and Mackenzie Rivers
		At Fort Nelson, leave you vehicle at the one storage yard at the Northwest corner of town (48th Ave and 55th Street) and get a ride or taxi down to the Muskwa River Bridge, two miles south of town.
		Fort Liard is a small town undergoing a local boom because of gas finds to the West.
		Fort Simpson has stores, motels, and phones, and Matco has a distributor here which is K and K Expediting who will accept your supply package and transport it to you in town.
	www.paddlemackenzie.org /mackenzie_canoeists_guide.htm (2861 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Keogh
		Shortly after the deaths of Colonel George Armstrong Custer and Colonel Myles Keogh, one of his officers at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876, General Nelson A. Miles was sent to the area with orders to establish a fort.
		Miles succeeded in his mission – by the early 1880's most of the tribes had surrendered and were moved onto reservations.
		In 1907, all infantry troops were removed, and 2 years later the fort became a remount station of the U.S. Army.
	www.forttours.com /pages/fortkeogh.asp (264 words)

	Fort Nelson Forest District Liard Boreal Forest Page
		The Fort Nelson Forest District is in the most North-easterly portion of the province of British Columbia.
		In effect, the Fort Nelson Forest District is a major portion of the Liard Boreal Forest.
		This has allowed the economy of the Fort Nelson area and the Northern Rockies Regional District to develop to what it is today.
	www.for.gov.bc.ca /dfn/boreal/fnforest.htm (640 words)

	Nelson River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nelson River (French: fleuve Nelson) is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
		The area was fought over for the fur trade, though the Hayes River, whose mouth is near the Nelson's, became the main route inland.
		Fort Nelson, an historic Hudson's Bay Company trading post, was located at the mouth of the Nelson River at Hudson Bay and was a key trading post in the early 18th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nelson_River (398 words)

	Montana's Missouri River Country - The Ultimate Sportsman's Paradise
		Nelson Reservoir, covering 4,500 acres about 17 miles from Malta, is also home for record-sized walleye, yellow perch and northern pike.
		The flat-billed paddlefish is native to the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers.
		Nelson Reservoir is a 4,000 acre reservoir ranked the number one walleye spot in the state.
	www.missouririver.visitmt.com /fishing.html (431 words)

	The Story of Old Fort Plain
		The winter following, Nelson remained at this tort and was in it when Col. Willett advanced with a body of troops, February 9, 1783, with the intention of taking it by surprise.
		Be that as it may, the probability is, that had the attack been made, the impossibility of scaling the walls would have frustrated the design, with the loss of many brave men.
		The fort was surrounded by a deep moat, in which were planted many sharp pickets.
	www.threerivershms.com /greene22.htm (789 words)

	Fort Nelson Story - Fur Forts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Charts in existence mark a "second" Fort Nelson, further south on the Fort Nelson River, as being destroyed by fire in 1813.
		This fur fort settlement of a church and other buildings was destroyed by a disastrous flood in 1890.
		The next Fort Nelson was moved to higher ground upstream across the River and became the present-day "Old Fort Nelson".
	rla.sd81.bc.ca /~fns/fnsfurforts.html (306 words)

	Fort Nelson Story - Rivers and Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		People born and brought up along a river feel a communion with the water, and they are maybe a little different than those who merely drive by.
		The Fort Nelson River was a means of transportation, winter and summer; it provided drinking water, and block ice; it was a place to swim, and a spot for picnicking; it could also strike fear in the hearts of mothers.
		Never one to be idle, or to complain Lodema kept the store open at the Old Fort, and also the store they had started here in Fort Nelson, which became known as the Foodmart (Fort Nelson Realty now).
	rla.sd81.bc.ca /~fns/fnsriversfate.html (360 words)

	Fort Nelson Hotels - Sport Travel Accommodations Article (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fort Nelson is the gateway to the northernmost reaches of the world famous Rocky Mountains, where the rugged wilderness promises incredible scenery and unforgettable encounters - whether you journey 50 feet from the Alaska Highway or 50 miles into the peaks and valleys of the vast back country.
		The lakes, rivers and streams in the area make for good fishing and the area is well known for its diversity of wildlife, which includes moose, fl and grizzly bear, mountain sheep, goat, caribou, elk, lynx and wolf.
		Sport tourism is a part of Fort Nelson and features hockey, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer and a host of other sports.
	www.sporthotelsinc.com.cob-web.org:8888 /articles/Fort_Nelson_Hotels (325 words)

	Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada
		Fort St. John is a well rounded municipality offering dining facilities which range from fast food to elegant and overnight accommodations suit all budgets,too.
		Fort St. John has become a sevice centre for the gas and oil industry in Northeast B.C. Local Attractions...
		Fort St. John is located 459 km (276 miles) north of Prince George on Highway 97.
	bccommunities.ca /fortstjohn/index.php (248 words)

	Etienne Pepin & Isabelle Kwantlen of Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada
		And in the spring of 2004, a friend who volunteers at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site emailed me to say she'd found a fellow named Etienne Pepen mentioned in Fort Vancouver's records, indicating that he was there prior to Fort Langley, and that he'd had a wife there.
		Fort Nisqually, which is quite near The Cowlitz, shows records of a man named Etienne Guace/Quace, but recent research by a descendant of this other Etienne revealed that Guace/Quace was a fellow named Etienne Legace.
		Fort Langley's Brigade Days celebration is held every year over the long August weekend (the first weekend of August), and is a probably the best time to visit if you are a Child of Fort Langley.
	www.fortlangley.ca /pepin/EtienneIsabelle.html (4603 words)

	Liard. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Liard (LEE-ahrd), river, 755 mi/1,215 km long, SE Yukon Territory, Canada; rising in the Pelly Mts.
		and flowing SE into N B.C., passes through the main range of the Rocky Mts., thence NE through densely wooded country to the Mackenzie R. at Fort Simpson, Fort Smith Region, N.W.T. It is navigable to Fort Liard, an old Hudson’s Bay Co. post, c.165 mi/270 km from its mouth.
		The South Nahanni and Fort Nelson rivers are its chief tributaries.
	www.bartleby.com /69/27/L03927.html (129 words)

	Alibris: rivers
		Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea as a tale set against the romantic backdrop of the California Gold Rush.
		Rivers, the award-winning author of "The Last Sin Eater, " brings the story to life in her trademark style and includes a Bible study and an ancestral chart of Jesus.
		Each novella in this new series from beloved author Rivers tells the story of one of five biblical men who stood behind the great heroes of the faith: Aaron the priest, Caleb the warrior, Jonathan the prince, Amos the prophet, and Silas the scribe.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/rivers (1137 words)

	Hamlet of Fort Liard
		Rivers were the people's highways for mellinia in northern Canada.
		At Fort Liard, it is said that people would come every year, most often in the early summertime, to talk about hunting grounds and to discuss various issues, to exchange news and wares, and to celebrate.
		The Liard River was once known as the South Branch of the Mackenzie.
	www.fortliard.com /bywater.htm (466 words)

	Northern BC Tourism Association - Fort Nelson & the Northern Rockies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As a point of service to the visitor, Fort Nelson, “Mile 300” Alaska Highway, offers all the amenities essential to your trip – quality accommodation options, restaurants, stores, and services to meet your needs, and a range of cultural and recreation facilities.
		Fort Nelson sits at the centre of the immense Northern Rockies wilderness area.
		Step off the highway to the shaded pool of a meandering river or enjoy the incomparable solitude of a fly-in trip to a cabin on one of the remote crystal lakes and rivers.
	www.nbctourism.com /members/Fort_Nelson_the_Northern_Rockies (447 words)

	Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » 2005 » July » 20
		A conversation with Flight Service revealed that the next pass was IFR as was Northway and the section of the Alaska Highway at the Canadian border.
		During a somewhat bumpy ride to the Liard River the scenery flattens out a bit and is lushly forested.
		The flight from Fort Nelson to Calgary was similarly plagued by smoke until the last hour.
	blogs.law.harvard.edu /philg/2005/07/20 (1114 words)

	Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
		Fort Nelson, a thriving northern community, is located at Mile 300 of the Alaska Highway and at the confluence of the Prophet, Muskwa, and the Fort Nelson Rivers.
		Fort Nelson is located 892 kilometres (554 miles) north of Prince George on Highway 97.
		Northern Rockies Regional District and Town of Fort Nelson
	bccommunities.ca /fortnelson/index.php (286 words)

	Rocky Mountains Guided Camping Rafting Tour Gataga River British Columbia
		This trip is a fly-in and out trip to maximize time on the river with three days hiking and fishing in the alpine before helicoptering to the river for the rafting portion of the trip.
		Mature stands of spruce grow along the river and the open forest floor is carpeted with flowering and fruiting plants, mosses and lichens.
		As the Canadian Airlines International flights south from Fort Nelson tend to be in the morning, it will be our goal to get you back to the hotel in Fort Nelson on the evening of Day 10.
	www.westcanadatours.com /raft_info2.html (821 words)

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