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Vintage Photos of Trading Posts from Across Alberta

March 23, 2023 Tyler Dixon

Canada’s western frontier was developed on the back of the fur trade. As an extremely competitive business, the fur trade thrived for nearly 250 years as hunters and trappers attempted to satisfy Europe’s demand for […]

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 […]