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2026-10-08

Here in July 1876, Superintendent James Walker established a post of the North-West Mounted Police in the heart of the…

2026-10-08

Built on the Qu'Appelle river flats below in 1787 by Robert Grant, Fort Espérance was one of the earliest and…

2026-10-08

This road was formerly part of a cart trail, also known as the Carlton Trail, which extended 1,400 kilometres between…

2026-10-08

This post, built in 1856 by Chief Factor W.J. Christie of the Hudson's Bay Company, replaced the first Fort Pelly…

2026-10-08

In the winter of 1829-30 Chief Factor John Rowand of the Hudson's Bay Company built this post to trade in…

2026-10-08

This Hudson's Bay Company fort, established in 1864, superseded a wintering post operated in the vicinity for over a decade.…

2026-10-08

In 1875 a detachment of North-West Mounted Police under Superintendent J.M. Walsh built a post here which served from 1878…

2026-10-08

This region was important in the fur trade from the time that Louis de la Corne built Fort St. Louis,…

2026-10-08

Raised on the prairies, Dumont became the greatest of the Métis buffalo hunters. As the herds diminished in the 1870s…

2026-10-08

Born in London, Lloyd came to Ontario in 1881 as an Anglican missionary and teacher, served as chaplain with the…