Fort Carlton Provincial Historic Park

 
Fort Carlton, in the Historic Park of the same name was built in 1820 at the bottom of a valley by a natural ford of the North Saskatchewan River.

For 75 years it was an important outpost, lying as it did at the junction of a main waterway, the North Saskatchewan River, with an important overland route - the Carlton Trail - which linked Winnipeg with Fort Edmonton.

In its early years the fort's main task was to provide the river patrols and other posts of the Hudson's Bay Company with supplies. It obtained meat, lard, furs and skins from the Indians and other traders, in exchange for rifles, tobacco, clothing, blankets, pearls and metal goods such as cooking utensils, axes, knives and traps.

Even when canoe patrols, York boats and steamships came west the fort remained an important trading center and continued to look after the settlers who arrived in the 1870s.

Officers of the Northwest Mounted Police were sent to the fort to negotiate with the Indians.
Address: Fort Carlton Provincial Historic Park, 102-112 Research Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7K2H6, Canada
Phone: 1 (306) 467-5205, Fax: 1 (306) 467-5215
Hours:
May 15 to September 5: 10am-6pm

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