Dawson Creek

Dawson Creek is a city in northeastern British Columbia; it is the seat of the Peace River Regional District. Together with the adjacent city of Pouce Coupe, it forms the Greater Dawson Creek conurbation.

History
Dawson Creek became the first city to be designated for development as part of the New Towns Project in 1958.

Air
Dawson Creek International Airport (IATA: XDC, ICAO: BCDC) is Dawson Creek's primary airport, and is the northern hub of Pacific Western Airlines, who operate scheduled services to eleven destinations in BC as well as three in Canada. Air BC provide flights to Prince George, Prince Rupert, Vancouver, and Victoria, Hawkair connect the city to Ganiks Laxha and Mackenzie, whilst Kelowna Flightcraft operate services to Kelowna. Most recently, Canadian North inaugurated Dawson Creek's fourth international connection, to its home base of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Rail
Dawson Creek Station is the northern terminus of BC Rail's Peace River Line; it is a busy station that sees numerous freight and passenger trains each day. Most notable of the passenger trains is the Aurora Borealis (Trains 123/124), a Limited Express service operated jointly by BC Rail and VIA Rail of Canada that runs twice weekly between Edmonton, Alberta and Whitehorse, Yukon via Dawson Creek and Dease Lake; northbound trains depart Edmonton on Tuesday and Thursday, and southbound trains depart Whitehorse on Monday and Wednesday. BC Rail operate two domestic Express services, the thrice-daily Kiskatinaw (Trains 81.1-3/82.1-3) between Dawson Creek and Prince George, and the Tahltan Highlander (Trains 83/84), a daily overnight sleeper service between Dease Lake and Dawson Creek. As well, Local services run twice daily between Dawson Creek and Mackenzie (Trains 8033E.1-2/8034E.1-2) and between Dawson Creek and Fort St John (Trains 8041E.1-2/8042E.1-2).

BC Rail share Dawson Creek Station with the Canadian National Railway, for which it serves as the northwestern terminus of its Dawson Creek Subdivision running to Edmonton, Alberta and on which CN operate several freight trains daily. CN do not operate any passenger trains, however, as in Canada passenger rail service is the responsibility of the Canadian Crown corporation, VIA Rail; VIA own their own rolling stock, but operate over the networks of Canada's two major railways, CN and CP Rail. In addition to the aforementioned Aurora Borealis, VIA Rail operate two other passenger services to Dawson Creek, both in conjunction with BC Rail: Trains 91/92, a daily Rapid service between Dawson Creek and Hay River, Northwest Territories, and Trains 901/902, a daily Local service between Dawson Creek and Edmonton.

Road
Dawson Creek is famous for being the location of Mile Zero of the Alaska Highway, which in BC is designated BC Highway 2; Mile Zero of the Alaska Highway is also the northwestern terminus of the Tupper Highway (BC Highway 2A), and the western terminus of the Spirit River Highway (BC Highway 49). The John Hart Highway (BC Highway 97) has its northeastern terminus in Dawson Creek, at its junction with the Alaska Highway a mile and a quarter northwest of Mile Zero.

Bus service is provided by the Dawson Creek Transit System.

Baseball
The Dawson Creek Gearjammers of the British Columbia Baseball League play at Harry Morrow Park (capacity: 6,240).

Football
Dawson Creek is represented in both the British Columbia Football League and the British Columbia Women's Football League by Dawson Creek FC and Dawson Creek WFC respectively, both of whom play at Crescent Park stadium, which seats 7,094 spectators.

Dawson Creek FC have played over fifty seasons in the League since first earning promotion to Division Three for the 1932 BCFL season. They have played in Division Three for most of that time, but the Clarets, as they are nicknamed, have played in Division Two on several occasions: 1976, 1978, 1980, 1985–1986, and from 2007 through 2011. They have won the Division Three title twice, in 1977 and 1979, and the Northeast Football Championship title in 1930, 1931, 1936, 1963, and 1964. They have reached the Quarter-Finals of the BC FA Cup on two occasions, unfortunately losing both times, in 1979 2:3 away at Port Alberni Athletic, and in 2020 at home against Kamloops City FC by a score of 0:1.

Hockey
The Dawson Creek Northmen of the British Columbia Hockey League play at the Dawson Creek Kin Arena, which has a capacity of 7,664 spectators.