The ‘’ClearwaterRiver’’ totals 295 kilometres in length and rises in northwestern Saskatchewan in the northern forest region of the Precambrian Shield.
The Saskatchewan section was granted Canadian Heritage River status in 1986, and the Alberta section of the Clearwater was designated in 2004.
During the European exploration and the fur trade of the 18th century, the downstream area of the ClearwaterRiver was an important transportation route between Hudson Bay in the east and the Athabasca District in the west.
Clearwater is home to the New Hudson River School, an internationally-renowned set of shipboard and on-land programs.
Clearwater believes that the traditional values of grassroots advocacy, one person at a time, carry the power of a participatory democracy straight to the places where decisions are made.
Clearwater is a story of people who have given of themselves as members, as supporters and as volunteers.