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Perryvale NA is composed of two parcels of land, adjacent on the diagonal [contiguous at the northeast corner of the southern quarter section.] Tawatinaw River NA lies further downstream of the river and or northeast of Perryvale. Both are on the river and located east of Highway 2 and about 20 km south of the town of Athabasca.

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• Map of the Area
• Other Information
• Site Statistics
• References and Further Reading

Map of the Area

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Other Information

Tawatinaw River Starts at Helliwell Lake, 68 kilometres southwest of Athabasca in Westlock County. It flows north past Rochester, Perryvale and Colinton before meeting the Athabasca River [1]. The Indigenous name Tawatinaw is First Nations and means the “river dividing the hills” or “valley river” [2].

Perryvale – population 10, based on the 2021 census, a This is a decline of 50% decline from 2016 when there was a population of 20 [3].

Lewiston was the original name for Perryvale, as it was founded by the Lewis family who moved there from Gibbons in 1905. The descendants of the Lewis family still live there and the original barn is still standing [4]. The post office in the hamlet opened in 1913 with Thomas Lewis as the first postmaster. The name was a combination of a relative of Thomas plus ‘vale’ [5].

Site Statistics

Site Name	Tawatinaw River (PNT)
Site Type	Natural Area
Subtype	Protective Notation (PNT)
Natural Region(s)	Dry Mixedwood
O.C. No. (Land Ref. Manual)	N/A
PASite ID (Map Ref #)	533
Site # (Parks Website)	N/A
Total Area	259.46 ha. (641.13 ac.)
Steward-Status
Recreation Activities
IUCN
Operated By
Notes and Comments

Site Name	Perryvale (CNT)
Site Type	Natural Area
Subtype	Consultative Notation (CNT)
Natural Region(s)	Dry Mixedwood
O.C. No. (Land Ref. Manual)	N/A
PASite ID (Map Ref #)	522
Site # (Parks Website)	N/A
Total Area	164.64 ha. (406.82 ac.)
Steward-Status
Recreation Activities
IUCN
Operated By
Notes and Comments

References

The following links are provided as a courtesy but are not verified or endorsed by SAPAA. Clicking on the link will cause you to leave the SAPAA website. Primary source of information is the Government of Alberta.

1. Maintaining the Tawatinaw River watershed – TownAndCountryToday.com
2. Peel 5240, p. 124 (ualberta.ca)
3. Athabasca Landing Trail – Alberta Trail Net – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
4. Perryvale – Wikipedia
5. Aubrey, Merrily K., ed. Concise Place Names of Alberta. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006.

[We should get in touch with this Tawatinaw River watershed group – maybe they will write an article for the newsletter. I met someone from Perryvale last summer and she invited me up to look at her greenhouse operation. Kilini Creek, Perryvale and Nestow all have peatland communities as I recall – I’d like to do a floristic comparison of them. ]

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