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Vintage Photos of Trapping from Around Alberta

August 18, 2022 Tyler Dixon

The fur trade played a formative role in the development of this country. For almost 250 years furs were big business across the vast, forested wilderness of what is now modern day Canada. The trade […]

History

Vintage Photographs from Rocky Mountain House

September 16, 2021 Tyler Dixon

The Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, competing fur-trade entities, both established trading posts in 1799 near the confluence of the North Saskatchewan and Clearwater Rivers, in what became known as Rocky Mountain […]

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Historic Photos of Fort Edmonton

January 22, 2021 Tyler Dixon

The Hudson’s Bay Company originally established Fort Edmonton back in 1795 along the banks of the North Saskatchewan River. The fortified trading post was strategically built next to their rivals, the North West Company’s Fort […]

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Alberta Travel

Lethbridge Lineage: Southern Alberta’s Historic Fort Whoop-Up

February 14, 2019 Tyler Dixon

Before there was an Alberta, before there were Mounties, there was a Whoop-Up! In 1869 two Montana fur traders, John J. Healy and Alfred B. Hamilton, traveled north to British/Canadian territory (formerly Rupert’s Land owned […]

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Wild Jobs Part Eight: Trappers

January 22, 2017 Tyler Dixon

“Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers…”                                ~Ellsworth […]

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