Forgotten History Exploring What Remains Of 1802 Fur Trading Posts In Alberta【4k】

Fort Vermilion, also known as Paint Creek House is located on the northern bank of the North Saskatchewan River, near also where the Vermilion River flows into the North Saskatchewan.

The site is the location of two provisioning and fur trading posts that were operated by the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company between 1802 and 1816. Artifacts collected from this site are stored in the collections of the Royal Alberta Museum.

Fort Vermilion, which should not be confused with Fort Vermilion on the Peace River, was most likely founded by James Hughes of the North West Company and Henry Hallet of the Hudson's Bay Company in or around 1802.

The posts, though established by rival trading companies, were situated within a common palisade for mutual protection. Their purpose was to conduct trade with local Aboriginal people, primarily those of the Blackfoot, Cree and Assiniboine groups. By mutual agreement of the two companies, the forts were abandoned in 1810 in favor of operations at Fort White Earth. In 1811, however, Fort Vermilion/Paint Creek House was re-opened and remained in operation until 1816.

Archaeological investigation at the site in 1991 led to the collection of more than 3,600 artifacts, including fragments of materials such as metal, ceramics, glass, fabric, animal bones, wood, gun flints, kaolin pipes, catlinite and steatite objects, birchbark, bone tools, seeds, mollusk shells and eggshell. In addition, some artifacts of Aboriginal origin, including stone flakes, stone knives and modified cobbles, were also observed. In commemoration of the paired forts, a provincial cairn with a plaque marks the location.

The site's location on the northern bank of the North Saskatchewan River, a site likely selected for its proximity to areas regularly used for bison hunting by the Aboriginal people prior to the establishment of the forts.

Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest company in North America and was chartered 2 May 1670. HBC was a fur trading business for most of its history linked with the colonization of British North America and the development of Canada.

Its first century of operation found HBC firmly established in a few forts and posts around the shores of James and Hudson Bays. Indigenous brought furs annually to these locations to barter for manufactured goods such as knives, kettles, beads, needles, and blankets. By the late 18th century competition forced HBC to expand into the interior. A string of posts grew up along the great river networks of the west.

The North West Company was the main rival in the fur trade and was headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. The competition led to the small Pemmican War in 1816. The Battle of Seven Oaks on 19 June 1816 was the climax of the long dispute. In 1821, the North West Company of Montreal and Hudson's Bay Company were forcibly merged by intervention of the British government to put an end to often-violent competition.

The resulting commercial enterprise now spanned the continent all the way to the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington and British Columbia) and the North (Alaska, the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut).

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