Ksituan

The Ksituan River joins the Peace River in a broad valley cut into the northern plateau. This is part of the traditional land of the Dane-zaa, or Beaver people, and the Peace valley has long been a place of gathering. The river winds eastward through the country, receiving streams from the wooded uplands on either side.

In 1805 Archibald Norman McLeod established Fort Dunvegan on the Peace, east of the Ksituan's mouth, for the North West Company. It became an important centre of the fur trade and a link with posts farther west. After the company merged with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821, Dunvegan changed hands. Conflict in the valley led to its abandonment in 1825, but the post reopened three years later.