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Thread #112655   Message #2386472
Posted By: Azizi
11-Jul-08 - 08:02 AM
Thread Name: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
Subject: RE: Songs That Mention Canadian Places
Then there's the song "Peace In The Valley". Maybe that song counts because there's a river in Alberta, Canada named "Peace River" and there's also a town in Alberta named "Peace River."

No? Songs with the word "Peace" in them don't count in this thread?

Oh, alright. Spoils sport.

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But just because...here's some information about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_River_(Canada) anyway.

"The Peace River (French: rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows through northern Alberta...

Alexander Mackenzie travelled up the river to the Continental Divide.[1] Mackenzie referred to the river as "Unjegah", from a native word meaning "large river". The Peace River, or Unchaga or Unjaja, was named after Peace Point near Lake Athabasca, where the Treaty of the Peace came authorized with the smoking of a peace pipe. The treaty ended the decades of hostilities between the Beaver (Athapascan branch) and the Cree in which the Cree dominated the Beaver until a smallpox epidemic in 1781 decimated the Cree. The treaty made the Beaver stay north of the river and the Cree south...

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And did you know that there's a Slave River in Canada?

"The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from Lake Athabasca in northeastern Alberta and empties into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories.

This river's name is thought to come from the Athabaskan "Deh Gah Got'ine", the name for the Slavey group of the Dene First Nations.[1] The Chipewyan had displaced other native people from this region".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_River

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But that's also a whole 'nuther subject.