15 Facts About Fort Edmonton

Fort Edmonton was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1795 to 1914, all of which were located on the north banks of the North Saskatchewan River in what is central Alberta, Canada.

Fort Edmonton was called Fort-des-Prairies, by French-Canadians trappers and coureurs des bois, and or "Beaver Hills House" in Cree, the most spoken Indigenous language in the region during the 19th century.

The Fort was named after Edmonton, Middlesex, England, birthplace of both Pruden and HBC Deputy Governor Sir James Winter Lake.

Fort Edmonton had accompanied her fur trader husband, Jean-Baptiste Lagimodiere, into the west shortly after their marriage in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, and was known to take part in hunting expeditions.

Evidence of this Fort Edmonton was found in 2012, when crews were excavating under a demolished machine shop at the Rossdale Power Plant.

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Name Fort Edmonton Augustus was dropped following the forced merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company in 1821.

Fort Edmonton found little sympathy for the workers from John Rowand or the HBC clerks.

Fort Edmonton produced several works of art based upon his time there.

Fort Edmonton was initially buried at Fort Pitt, but was later exhumed and buried in Montreal as per his last will and testament.

In 1841 James Sinclair stopped at Fort Edmonton to receive instructions on where to cross the Rockies.

Fort Edmonton recorded his observations in the 1874 book Saskatchewan and Rocky Mountains and published a book on Cree syllabics in 1875.

Spring of 1870 saw Fort Edmonton come under the threat of violence due to a war between the Blackfoot and Cree, resulting from the slaying of Cree Chief Maskipiton.

In 1923 the suspected site of the original Forts Augustus and Edmonton at Fort Saskatchewan was declared a National Historic Site of Canada, and a plaque was placed on the site.

In 1959, the site of the fifth Fort Edmonton was made a National Historic Site and plaque was installed near the Alberta Legislature building.

In 1969, a reconstruction of the fifth Fort Edmonton began five kilometres upstream from its final site, representing it as it stood in 1846, but this time on the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River.