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Hudson's Bay Company FORT ASSINIBOINE on Athabasca River
This replicated fort was created by the local historical society, celebrating its past as a former Hudson's Bay Company fort on the busy fur trade routes on the Athabasca River from Jasper and the Rocky Mountains and beyond both east, west and north.
The fur trading council (after the merger of the HBC and the NWC in 1821) adopted a resolution in 1823 calling for a fort further up the Athabasca River to reduce transport times. Fort Assiniboine on the Athabasca River became the northwest end of an overland 80 miles (129 km) horse track to Edmonton House/Fort Edmonton on the North Saskatchewan River, thus providing a straighter route from Athabasca Pass within the Rocky Mountains to York Factory on Hudson Bay.
A party on horseback could make the trip in about two days. The new route was used by the York Factory Express. The old canoe route involved going far north-northeast up the Athabasca to Fort Chipewyan and then southeast through Methye Portage to Lake Winnipeg.
Hudson's Bay Company FORT ASSINIBOINE on Athabasca River
This replicated fort was created by the local historical society, celebrating its past as a former Hudson's Bay Company fort on the busy fur trade routes on the Athabasca River from Jasper and the Rocky Mountains and beyond both east, west and north.
The fur trading council (after the merger of the HBC and the NWC in 1821) adopted a resolution in 1823 calling for a fort further up the Athabasca River to reduce transport times. Fort Assiniboine on the Athabasca River became the northwest end of an overland 80 miles (129 km) horse track to Edmonton House/Fort Edmonton on the North Saskatchewan River, thus providing a straighter route from Athabasca Pass within the Rocky Mountains to York Factory on Hudson Bay.
A party on horseback could make the trip in about two days. The new route was used by the York Factory Express. The old canoe route involved going far north-northeast up the Athabasca to Fort Chipewyan and then southeast through Methye Portage to Lake Winnipeg.