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	Fort Edmonton
		Fort Edmonton was established on the Northern Saskatchewan River in 1795 by the HUDSON'S BAY CO as a fortified trading post next to the rival NORTH WEST CO, which had earlier built its own fort nearby.
		From 1826 to 1853 the fort thrived under the management of the colourful John ROWAND and has been painted for posterity by Paul KANE (1846).
		Today Fort Edmonton Park, located in southwest Edmonton, features a reconstruction of the fort and, as a living museum, depicts the early development of Edmonton.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002932 (208 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Edmonton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, situated in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farm land on the prairies.
		Edmonton serves as the northern anchor of the "Calgary-Edmonton Corridor"?title=(one of four such regions that, in total, comprise 50% of the Canadian population) and is a staging point for large-scale oilsands projects occurring in the north of the province as well as large-scale diamond mining operations in the Northwest Territories.
		Edmonton is situated at the boundary between prairie to the south and boreal forest to the north, in a transitional area known as aspen parkland.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Edmonton (6679 words)

	Edmonton
		Edmonton became the centre of oil refining and the PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY in western Canada.
		Edmonton is very similar in population to its neighbour and rival, Calgary.
		Edmonton was the first medium-sized city in Canada to construct an LRT (Light Rail Transit) system.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0002525 (1077 words)

	Hbc Heritage - Our History - Places
		William Tomison of Hbc founded Fort Edmonton in the fall of 1795 at the junction of the North Saskatchewan and Sturgeon Rivers, "virtually next door" to the North West Company (NWC) post Fort Augustus, which had been established only a few months earlier.
		Fort Edmonton was selected as the district headquarters for the North Saskatchewan region.
		Fort Edmonton was a "meat " post: much of the pemmican and dried and fresh buffalo meat consumed by fur traders came from there.
	www.hbc.com /hbcheritage/history/places/stores/edmonton.asp (931 words)

	WorldTravelGate.net® - The History of Edmonton, Canada.
		John Rowand, a fur trader for the North West Company, arrived in Edmonton in 1804, and grew to be respected by the Plains Indians and accepted as a leader, managing Edmonton's the fur trade with the Cree and Blackfoot in Edmonton for about 30 year.
		In 1912, Edmonton on the north side of the river and the town of Strathcona on the south amalgamated with a combined population over 53,000.
		Edmonton's modern downtown overlooks the beautiful river valley and its parklands on both shores.
	www.americatravelling.net /canada/edmonton/edmonton_history.htm (557 words)

	1001 Edmonton Alberta Canada Information - proudly presented by Kanada News' Canada Vacation Planner The Online Travel ...
		Fort Edmonton Park is the largest living history park in Canada, reconstructing a old Hudson's Bay Company fort and the surrounding town, circa 1885.
		The Edmonton City Hall is located in the downtown area of Edmonton and its design enhances the downtown core with its dramatic elongated, sloping pyramid roof that reaches 8 storeys high, its art collection, large outdoor reflective pool and the 200 ft. clock tower with a 23-bell carillon.
		By 1904, Edmonton was incorporated as a city with a population of 8,350.
	www.kanada-alberta.de /en/edmonton/index.html (2567 words)

	Fort Victoria: An Eonomic History
		In mid-August 1865, it was noted that Fort Victoria was "rather scarce of provisions." 153 It was the beginning of September before the situation was rectified.
		In May 1876, the Fort Edmonton Journal recorded a major reduction in the quantity of dried meat purchased, and in October, W. Christie remarked that while the number of free traders had not declined, their propensity to sell had definitely done so.
		From 1883 to 1887, Fort Victoria was inoperative.
	www.smokylake.com /history/paper7/chapterV.htm (3925 words)

	Real Estate Weekly
		The fort was headquarters of the fur trade for the district, a provisioning point for travellers and explorers, a posting of isolation and loneliness and a gathering place.
		In his quest to widen the historical account of Fort Edmonton, Silversides, a former archivist and researcher at the Provincial Archives of Alberta and now director of Media Commons at the University of Toronto Libraries, pulled from a vast array of primary source historical records and images.
		In the end, Fort Edmonton was, as Silversides writes, a rotting, bug-infested group of buildings in the middle of a modern city.
	www.rewedmonton.ca /content_view_rew?CONTENT_ID=1243 (1046 words)

	Alberta: How the West was Young - Site Profile - Fort Edmonton
		Not long after the establishment of Fort George and Buckingham House on the North Saskatchewan River in 1792 both the North West (NWC) and Hudson’s Bay (HBC) Companies made plans to move their operations further upriver.
		After the amalgamation of the HBC and North West Companies in 1821, the name Fort Augustus was abandoned and operations were centralized at a renewed Fort Edmonton.
		Fort Edmonton was selected as the district headquarters for the North Saskatchewan region and it joined Fort Chipewyan as the two largest and most important posts in what would become Alberta.
	www.abheritage.ca /alberta/fur_trade/site_profiles_fort_edmonton.html (635 words)

	Edmonton Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		Perched on the steep banks of the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton is the capital city of Alberta and the sixth-largest city in Canada, with a metro-area population of one million.
		Edmonton's third boom gushed from the ground on a cold February morning in 1947, when oil was discovered in Leduc, 40 km (25 mi) to the southwest.
		By 1965, Edmonton had solidified its role as "oil capital of Canada" and today commemorates that role with an NHL hockey team known as the Edmonton Oilers and a Northern League baseball team known as the Edmonton Cracker-Cats.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=edmonton@62 (369 words)

	Carousel News and Trader Magazine - Fort Edmonton Park Carousel
		Lauren Baker, who was working for the Fort Edmonton Foundation during the carousel’s construction, designed many of the horses, produced color schemes, carved one horse and was involved in painting several as a volunteer.
		Fort Edmonton Park is a jewel, located on the North Saskatchewan River, which flows through Edmonton.
		While it was the Fort Edmonton Foundation that raised the funds, and the City of Edmonton that now operates it, the carousel simply would not exist without the volunteers who built it.
	carouselnews.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=66 (2181 words)

	Edmonton travel guide - Wikitravel
		Edmonton is a northern North American city with a population of over 712,000 (2005), and one of the largest northern cities in the world.
		Edmonton is 3 hours north of Calgary on the Queen Elizabeth II highway (formerly Highway 2), and 3 1/2 hours east of Jasper on highway 16.
		Edmonton is one of the few major cities in North America to have a street system that is mostly numbered rather than named, although it does have named streets: usually major roadways and in the newer residential areas, especially in southwest Edmonton.
	wikitravel.org /en/Edmonton (10040 words)

	EPL.ca: Edmonton Writings
		It is because of his skill and the hard work of many men and women that Fort Edmonton stood the test of time until the Fort was dismantled in 1915.
		His early successes pushed Edmonton from its infancy during the Rowand years into its next leg of development and on to where others took over to bring it to its cosmopolitan status in the 21st century.
		Fort Edmonton Park is the largest living history museum in Canada and shows Rowand’s Hudson’s Bay fort as it was in 1846 and the city’s streets of 1885, 1905 and 1920.
	www.epl.ca /EPLTheSourceArticle.cfm?article=V6-3/FortEdmonton (952 words)

	Edmonton Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Perched on the steep banks of the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton is the capital city of Alberta and the sixth-largest city in Canada, with a metro-area population of one million.
		Edmonton's third boom gushed from the ground on a cold February morning in 1947, when oil was discovered in Leduc, 40 km (25 mi) to the southwest.
		By 1965, Edmonton had solidified its role as "oil capital of Canada" and today commemorates that role with an NHL hockey team known as the Edmonton Oilers and a Northern League baseball team known as the Edmonton Cracker-Cats.
	fodors.com /rants/rrread.cfm?destination=edmonton@62&...&pg=5 (369 words)

	Edmonton History
		Life at the fort followed a routine of trading, dispatching brigades to remote outposts, planting food and grain crops in the spring, harvesting them in the fall, and hunting and fishing to obtain meat for the fort's inhabitants.
		Their misfortune was an added bonus for Edmonton, because many individuals who had planned on passing through the city decided to stay, boosting Edmonton's population six-fold.
		Edmonton's biggest boom began in 1947 with a 90-foot gusher of fl crude oil in the suburb of Leduc, just southwest of the city.
	www.edmontonalberta.net /history.html (1130 words)

	Richard's Fort Edmonton Wallpapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fort Edmonton Park is undeniably the city’s premiere attraction.
		The many horses at Fort Edmonton are all very gentle.
		It has no suspension, and the roads at Fort Edmonton are not exactly paved.
	www.ualberta.ca /~rrothery/Fort_Edmonton1.htm (459 words)

	The Scottish Rite Journal
		Fort Edmonton, the modern version, began in 1969, when a replica of the final fort was built three miles upstream from its last location.
		The Ionic club of Edmonton is comprised of all Freemasons who are members of Edmonton Lodge No. 7 A.F. and A.M. and Eastgate Lodge No. 192 A.F. and A.M. The Solid Symbol Society of Highlands Lodge No. 168, the Alberta government, and the Fort Edmonton Foundation also provided funding for the project.
		Fort Edmonton Park is located on Whitemud Dr. and Fox Dr. (7000 – 143 St.) Admission to the park ranges from $4.75 for children to $9.25 for adults and is a very inexpensive way to spend a day in Edmonton, Alberta.
	www.srmason-sj.org /web/journal-files/Issues/nov-dec05/dafoe.html (1142 words)

	ETS Photo Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Fort Edmonton Park, a historical/restored area of Edmonton, was allowing the public in free of charge.
		ERRS 42, 24, and 4612 are seen on the same street at Fort Edmonton Park.
		ERRS 24 is seen in Fort Edmonton Park during the Homecoming Weekend.
	www.etspe.ca /special/oct11-04/fortedmpark.php (240 words)

	Fort Edmonton
		, a trading-post of the Hudson's Bay Company, built in 1795 close to the North West Company's Fort Augustus, on the north bank of the Saskatchewan river, about 20 miles east of the present city of Edmonton.
		It was destroyed by the Indians in 1807, like Fort Augustus; and was rebuilt in 1808 near the new Fort Augustus, only to be destroyed a second time by the Indians in 1810.
		Some time prior to 1819 it was reoccupied by the Hudson's Bay Company, and was rebuilt, first on the river flats, and later on the bluff above the river.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/FortEdmonton.htm (127 words)

	Alberta Forts
		These were illegal traders from Fort Benton, Montana, trading guns and whiskey to the Blackfoot Indians for buffalo hides and furs.
		Most of the original fort was torn down in 1882 and replaced by newer structures.
		His cousin Sir Alexander Mackenzie departed from this fort on an expedition which led to the discovery of the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories in 1789.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/ab.html (659 words)

	Past is Present
		Fort Collins Birney 21 (American Car, 1919) has held down all services since the railway’s inception in 1984 and passed a 1991 Federal Railroad Administration inspection without reservation, thanks largely to the expert maintenance given the venerable car by the Society’s Roger Mitchell.
		Edmonton 13’s restoration is a long-term project, as is the replication of a single car from the 53/65/73 trio.
		Toronto Suburban 24 was retired in 1923 and sold to the CNR grain terminal at Fort William, where it carried switchmen at the side of the hump yard.
	www.heritagetrolley.org /TNERJPastIsPresent.htm (2675 words)

	Fort Edmonton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Edmonton (originally named Edmonton House) was established in 1795 as a trading post on the North Saskatchewan River for the Hudson's Bay Company.
		It was located near Fort Augustus, a post of the rival North West Company, on the north side of the river from present-day Fort Saskatchewan.
		In 1821, after the amalgamation of the Northwest and Hudson's Bay Companies (under the HBC flag), Edmonton became the headquarters for the Saskatchewan district, which stretched from the Canadian Rocky Mountains in the west to Fort Carlton in the east; from the 49th parallel in the south to Lesser Slave Lake in the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Edmonton (673 words)

	Fort Saskatchewan to rebuild historic fort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		EDMONTON - Plans are underway to put the fort back in Fort Saskatchewan.
		The main force established Fort Macleod in southern Alberta, but about 20 troopers broke off from the main party in southeast Saskatchewan and made a brutally difficult trek to Fort Edmonton where they wintered.
		Fort Macleod boasts a replica of the original North West Mounted Police fort, the Fort Museum of the North West Mounted Police.
	www.canada.com /edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=6ca9eac8-7999-4856-9425-b4e263a28a1b&k=9650 (483 words)

	Edmonton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Edmonton is a wonderful place to live in and to visit.
		Located in Edmonton's West End, this enormous shopping Centre brags that it is the largest in the World.
		Edmonton has many festivals and events throughout the spring and summer.
	www.edmontonrentals.com /edmonton.htm (172 words)

	DAFE: Ft. Edmonton Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sharon is a member of a group that is planning a new area for the Fort Edmonton Park.
		The first fort had been built in 1795, one of four to protect the area over the next century.
		City land was chosen in the river valley and construction began to recreate the fort as it appeared in 1846.
	www.dafe.org /projects/edmonton/edmonton.htm (486 words)

	Edmonton thumbnail gallery.
		Edmonton city hall is the blue triangle in the background on the right.
		This is the inside of Fort Edmonton, a fur trading fort.
		The photo was taken from the second story of the main building at Fort Edmonton Park.
	www.westerntour.com /Edmonton (1151 words)

	Edmonton Transit
		Edmonton is the birthplace of modern light rail in North America.
		Edmonton maintains 2 vintage streetcar lines, both operated by a non-profit group.
		The first line is at Fort Edmonton Park, the other connects the capitol mall district with Strathcona.
	ktransit.com /transit/Canada/edmonton.htm (225 words)

	Fort Garry-Fort Edmonton Trail Commemorated as National Historic Site
		EDMONTON, February 17, 1997 -- At special Heritage Day ceremonies in Edmonton and Winnipeg today, the Fort Garry - Fort Edmonton Trail was officially commemorated in recognition of its national historic importance as the main trade and transportation route across the Northwest for much of the 19th century.
		The Fort Garry-Fort Edmonton Trail was the principal overland trade route in the Northwest for much of the 19th century.
		From Fort Garry in the Red River Settlement (later Winnipeg), the 1440 kilometre trail travelled along the Assiniboine River to Portage La Prairie, then north to Fort Ellice, near the junction of the Assiniboine and Qu'Appelle Rivers, through the Touchwood Hills to Batoche, Fort Carlton, Fort Pitt, St. Paul-des-Cris and finally Fort Edmonton.
	www.canadianheritage.gc.ca /newsroom/index_e.cfm?fuseaction=displayDocument&DocIDCd=7NR234 (846 words)

	Fort Edmonton Foundation
		Since 1969, the Fort Edmonton Foundation has been committed to raising capital funds to complete Fort Edmonton Park-Canada's largest living history museum.
		Run by a dedicated volunteer Board of Directors, the Foundation is an independent charitable organization that works closely with the City of Edmonton and Fort Edmonton Park.
		Over the past 37 years, the Foundation has raised approximately $20 million (cash and in-kind) toward the establishment of over 80 structures in the Park.
	www.fortedmontonfoundation.org (116 words)

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