Upper Summit Lake (British Columbia) River, Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River into the Beaufort Sea portion of the Arctic Ocean. Upper Summit Lake (British Columbia) Upper Summit Lake is a lake in Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, about north of the city of Prince George and south of the community of Bear Lake. It lies just west of Highway 97 (John Hart Highway). Upper Summit Lake is about long and wide, and lies at an elevation of . There are no inflows, and an unnamed creek flows from the southern tip of the lake to
Mackenzie River project has not yet been reached. A potential US$1 billion, 1350 MW hydro plant on the Slave River was canceled in 2010 after an agreement could not be reached with First Nations people in the area to be flooded by the reservoir. Mackenzie River The Mackenzie River (Slavey language: Deh-Cho , "big river" or Inuvialuktun: Kuukpak , "great river"; ) is the longest river system in Canada, and has the second largest drainage basin of any North American river after the Mississippi River. The Mackenzie River flows through a vast, thinly populated region of forest and tundra entirely within the