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  • 2026-10-08
    The Rocky Mountain Development Co., formed in the late 1890's by John Lineham, Allan Patrick and G.K. Leeson, commenced drilling…
  • 2026-10-08
    A fur trade post was built here by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1823. Two years later, with the completion…
  • 2026-10-08
    Attempting to outdistance competition and tap new sources of pelts, Angus Shaw of the North West Company built Fort Augustus…
  • 2026-10-08
    Headquarters for “the famed Athabasca, the delight and school of the North”, Fort Chipewyan was once the richest trading post…
  • 2026-10-08
    Established in 1805 for the North West Company by Archibald Norman McLeod, Fort Dunvegan was named after the ancestral castle…
  • 2026-10-08
    The remains across the river are those of Fort Fork, built by the North West Company in 1792 as a…
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    In October 1874 a detachment of North-West Mounted Police under Assistant- Commissioner J. F. Macleod arrived here from Manitoba and…
  • 2026-10-08
    In 1788 Charles Boyer built the first post in this area to trade with the Beaver Indians. Until its amalgamation…
  • 2026-10-08
    Established in 1869 as a base for trade with the Indians, Fort Whoop-Up was the earliest and most notorious of…
  • 2026-10-08
    Here on 2nd April, 1885, rebel Indians under Big Bear massacred Rev. Father Léon Adélard Fafard, O.M.I., Rev. Father Félix…