The Doig River is a river in

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

and northern

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...

, Canada. It originates on the northern fringes of

Peace River Country The Peace River Country (or Peace Country; french: Région de la Rivière-de-la-paix) is an aspen parkland region centring on the Peace River in Canada. It extends from northwestern Alberta to the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, ...

northern Alberta Northern Alberta is a geographic region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. An informally defined cultural region, the boundaries of Northern Alberta are not fixed. Under some schemes, the region encompasses everything north of the cent ...

, south of the

Chinchaga Wildland Park Chinchaga Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in northwestern Alberta, Canada. The park is a environmentally protected tract of land within the of the greater Chinchaga wilderness area. It is a disjunct outlier of the Foothi ...

, in the Halverson Ridge of the

Clear Hills Clear Hills County is a municipal district in north western Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 17. In 1950, the massive Chinchaga fire burned through much of the region. On January 1, 2006, the name was changed from ''Municip ...

, then flows westwards into

. It empties into the

Beatton River The Beatton River is a tributary of the Peace River, flowing generally east, then south through north-eastern British Columbia, Canada. The river rises at Pink Mountain, about west of the Alaska Highway hamlet of the same name, and flows genera ...

, a tributary of the

Peace River The Peace River (french: links=no, rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta. The Peace River joins the Athabasca River in th ...

, at an elevation of . Tributaries include the Square Creek, Betts Creek and Mearon Creek in Alberta; Adskwatim Creek, Osborn River, La Guarde Creek, and Siphon Creek in British Columbia. The Indigenous community of

Doig River The Doig River is a river in Alberta and northern British Columbia, Canada. It originates on the northern fringes of Peace River Country in northern Alberta, south of the Chinchaga Wildland Park, in the Halverson Ridge of the Clear Hills, then ...

is located in British Columbia along the river on reserve No 206, based on Treaty No. 8 and signed by the

Beaver Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers ar ...

community as the last tribe in May 1900. There were 140 inhabitants in 2001, 125 thereof Indians. 50% of the inhabitants were fluent in the

Athabascan Athabaskan (also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific Co ...

(Beaver) language; 28,6% of the population spoke Beaver as their mother-tongue. The

Doig Airport Doig Airport is a remote forest fire suppression airfield located in northwestern Alberta, Canada. "Doig" is just the name of the airfield's location, named for the Doig River; there is no community with that name. The airfield is located on the ...

is located at

Doig, Alberta Doig is an unincorporated community in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located in Clear Hills County, in a muskeg and boreal forest landscape. The Doig Airport is located here. It was named after the Doig River, a tributary of Beatton River. T ...

. The

Doig Formation The Doig Formation is a geologic formation of middle Triassic age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from Doig River, a tributary of the Beatton River, and was first described in the Texaco N.F.A. Buick Creek No. 7 wel ...

, a

Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period ...

age geological unit of the

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) underlies of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories. This vast sedimentary ...

was named for the river.

References

Rivers of Alberta Rivers of British Columbia {{BritishColumbia-river-stub

See also

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