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Paddlewheel Park is a small city park on the 
The park is located at the foot of Hamilton Avenue in historic 
The park has a seating area and plaque that explains its history, but due to its location in a low-lying area by the Fraser River, it has been prone to flood, flooding, especially during spring run-off.
Paddlewheel Park is a small city park on the Fraser River
The Fraser River () is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain (Canada), Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for , into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of V ...
in Prince George, British Columbia
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, Canada
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.
The park was built in honor of the upper Fraser River sternwheelers
A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, whereby the first uses were wh ...
that landed there from 1909 until 1921.
The park is located at the foot of Hamilton Avenue in historic South Fort George
South Fort George is a suburb of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
Before the arrival of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, the Prince George area was known as Fort George and was a Lheidli T'enneh village and Hudson's Bay Company st ...
. Hamilton Avenue is named after pioneer storekeeper Alexander Hamilton. The local office and warehouse of the BC Express Company were located there from 1910 until 1921. Hamilton Avenue was also the address of the Hotel Northern which, during the era of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway running from Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a Pacific coast port. East of Winnipeg the line continued as the National ...
construction, was one of the busiest hotels in British Columbia, often enjoying sales of $7000 per day, at a time when drinks were 25 cents apiece.
The park has a seating area and plaque that explains its history, but due to its location in a low-lying area by the Fraser River, it has been prone to flood, flooding, especially during spring run-off.
References
*''Paddlewheels on the Frontier'' Volume One, Art Downs * ''Stagecoach and Sternwheeler Days'' Willis West * ''A History of Prince George'' Rev FE Runnals {{coord, 53.8989, -122.7365, type:landmark_region:CA, display=title Parks in British Columbia Prince George, British Columbia