Fort St John

The city of Fort St. John is located within northeastern BC. It is the biggest city along the Alaska Highway, which it is located at Mile 47. The city has around 22,000 residents, with a land area of nearly 22 sq. km. It is a member municipality of the Peace River Regional District. During 1794, the area was originally founded as a trading post. This makes Fort St. John the oldest established settlement by Europeans in B.C. these days. The area is served by the Fort St. John Airport.

Because the town is located on the highland prairies which lay north of the Peace River, the area has a continental weather which includes warm summers and frigid winter temperatures. Predominately, a southwesterly wind blows through the town. The average wind speed is approximately 8.5 mi or 13.7 km. It is good to know that Fort St. John makes use of Mountain Standard Time in summertime and wintertime. Because of its northern latitude, the town goes through extended daylight hours during summertime and short daytime hours in wintertime.

Fort St. John serves as the urban center and home to 18,000 individuals. The city likewise supports a rural and farming population of about 12,000 people. Fort St. John serves as an industrial, service and retail center. British Columbia's provincial Oil and Gas Commission is centered within this particular city. Due to the opening of an oriented strand board plant in 2005, forestry has become much more essential to Fort St. John. The mainstay of the financial system has been Agriculture with its providing and servicing a market for the high ground prairie communities.

There were roughly 10,000 income earners within the city who are over the age of 15. Practically 4,500 of these earners worked throughout the year full time. The area's well paying oil and gas business attracts a fairly young population, which accounts for the high participation rate. The income gap in the male to female ratio in Fort St. John is large.