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Should Peace River Block be merged into this artile? It seems to be a particular tract of land inside Peace River Country, an the article states "in northeastern British Columbia the region is also referred to as the Peace River Block". -- 67.142.130.14 15:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
There should be, on the BC side anyway, two colourations; one for the core area (as I just described it in an edit) and the other for the vernacular usage which includes Ft Nelson, i.e. areas N of Ft St. John which the article says is the northern limit; the term was also used to mean the Peace Canyon, with the Finlay Country starting at Finlay Forks, British Columbia at the then-western edge/end of the Peace River Country in its oldest context. "Peace River Block", I agree, is somewhat different, as meaning the whole northeast corner of BC beyond the Rockies, which was added to BC post-everything else (in 1871 or just after?); but it didn't include the Peace Canyon, it ended at the line of the Rockies, I'm pretty sure, as the Omineca, Finlay, Stuart/Nation and upper Peace, i.e. the cismontane Peace basin were already part of British Columbia during their respective gold rushes in teh 1860s; the inherited boundary between pre-Peace BC and the Peace River Block comes from the fur districts, the boundary between New Caledonia and Rupert's Land.... Skookum1 ( talk) 05:20, 17 April 2008 (UTC)