James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk
James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk, was a Scottish nobleman, explorer and poet.
Lord Southesk by Richard James Lane, 1861
Plains grizzly bear and plains bison
James, Earl of Southesk
Bust of the Earl, by William Grant Stevenson
Fort Edmonton was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) from 1795 to 1914, all of which were located on the north banks of the North Saskatchewan River in what is now central Alberta, Canada. It was one of the last points on the Carlton Trail, the main overland route for Metis freighters between the Red River Colony and the points west and was an important stop on the York Factory Express route between London, via Hudson Bay, and Fort Vancouver in the Columbia District. It also was a connection to the Great Northland, as it was situated relatively close to the Athabasca River whose waters flow into the Mackenzie River and the Arctic Ocean. Located on the farthest north of the major rivers flowing to the Hudson Bay and the HBC's shipping posts there, Edmonton was for a time the southernmost of the HBC's forts.
Fort Edmonton, 1870.
This watercolor with a scale diagram of the Fort was drawn by Vavasour in 1846.
Artist Paul Kane's romanticized painting of the fifth fort (1849, from 1846 sketch), displaying Rowand's house rising high above the palisade.
A charcoal sketch of Fort Edmonton circa. 1867.