Carlton Trail
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The Carlton Trail was the primary land transportation route in the Canadian Northwest for most of the 19th century, connecting Fort Carlton to Edmonton along a line of intermediate places. It was part
Red River ox cart train on the Carlton Trail
National historic site of Canada plaque
Fort Edmonton
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Fort Edmonton was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1795 to 1914, all of which were located on the north banks of the North Saskatchewan River in what is now centr
Carlton Trail
…Saskatchewan River near Batoche and reached Fort Carlton on the North Saskatchewan River. From there, it ran west on the north side of the river to Fort Edmonton at what is now Edmonton, Alberta. An alternative, the South Victoria Trail, ran on a more direct route to and from Edmonton, on the south side of the…
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.