Whether you come for the day or stay A Little History Contact and camp, historic Dunvegan offers a wide variety of cultural and nature- Since the end of the last ice age, over Camping Information Historic based activities. The park is located 10,000 years ago, First Nations people have Phone: (780) 538–5350 camped and hunted along the banks of the Dunvegan one hour north of Grande Prairie and Peace River. When European traders and Reservations fifteen minutes south of Fairview. missionaries arrived in the early 1800s, they Web: reserve.albertaparks.ca Provincial Park were also attracted to the river flats. Phone: 1–877–537–2757 CAMPGROUND GUIDE In 1805, the first trading post was established Historic Site & Visitor Centre Information by Archibald Norman McLeod of the Phone: (780) 835–7150 summer North West Company. He named the post Phone: (780) 835–7206 winter “Dunvegan” for his ancestral castle on the Email: [email protected] Isle of Skye in Scotland. After the merger Web: historicdunvegan.org of the North West and Hudson’s Bay Companies in 1821, Dunvegan continued to General Provincial Park Information operate as a Hudson’s Bay Company post Web: albertaparks.ca until 1918. Toll Free: 1–866–427–3582 Phone: (780) 427–3582 Oblate missionaries began visiting the area in the 1840s, and in 1867 St. Charles Roman Fire Bans in Alberta Catholic Mission was established here. The Web: albertafirebans.ca Anglican Church also built a mission, St. Savior’s, in 1879. Emergency (Police, Fire, Ambulance) Phone: 911 St. Charles Church and Rectory 64 Hines Creek Dunvegan Provincial Park’s campground 685 2 Peace River has 67 power sites, wheel-chair accessible 2 washrooms, fire pits, a playground and a Fairview 2 Dunvegan Provincial Park sewage disposal station. A concession is 2 744 adjacent to the visitor centre and open during Rycroft Donnelly To the summer. 49 2 Edmonton Dunvegan Provincial Park is in bear 2 733 676 country. Visitors should take the necessary 49 736 precautions, such as securing food in the Crooked trunk of a vehicle and disposing of garbage 43 Creek in the bear-proof receptacles. For information 43 Grande 734 43 Valleyview about bear safety, ask park staff or get a Prairie copy of our Bear Smart brochure. Photo Credit: Travel Alberta ISBN: 978–0–7785–9580–9 Printed September 2011 Activities & Events Dunvegan Campground Map N Experience the park on beautiful walking Amphitheatre Historic Site 0 50m Concession Visitor and biking trails that wind along the Peace Centre River. At the adjacent Historic Dunvegan Site, Day Use Parking Area discover over 200 years of First Nations, fur Drinking Picnic trade and missionary history in the visitor Water Shelter centre and four restored buildings. Dump Station Playground Firewood Registration First Aid Telephone Fishing Washrooms To Fairview Horseshoe Wheelchair Pitch Accessible 2 # 15/30 Amp Power Native Encampment Factor’s House Revillon Freres Post 1 3 2 33 4 32 To The Maples 5 30 31 63 Day Use Area 7 6 62 8 29 64 65 67 28 60 9 27 35 66 61 Church 10 34 58 11 37 59 & Rectory 12 36 39 57 56 14 13 26 38 25 40 17 19 20 24 23 54 Guided tours of the restored Factor’s House, 15 22 41 55 18 53 16 42 43 45 46 48 52 St. Charles Church and Rectory are available 51 21 44 50 49 from May 15th until Labour Day, or you can 2 47 explore on your own. Historic site interpreters To Dunvegan serve tea and bannock on Saturday Gardens afternoons in July and August. Entertaining and informative amphitheatre programs are presented on Saturday afternoons on long weekends. Peace River Special events include Canada Day celebrations and a fresh air market in August. Garden pathways connect the historic site to a picnic area that has shelters, fire pits, a playground and horseshoe pitches..