1890 Reclus print FORT EDMONTON ON SASKATCHEWAN RIVER, CANADA (#32)

Reclus15_32 1890 Reclus print FORT EDMONTON ON SASKATCHEWAN RIVER, CANADA (#32) Nice print titled Fort Edmonton. - vue prise des rives du Saskatchewan, from wood engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, approx. page size is 27 x 18 cm, approx. image size is 19 x 13 cm.From Amerique Boreale, volume 15 in series La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes / The Earth and Its Inhabitants, great work of Elisee Reclus. Fort Edmonton Fort Edmonton (also named Edmonton House) was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1795 to 1891, all of which were located in central Alberta, Canada. From 1795 to 1821 it was paired with the North West Company's Fort Augustus. It was the end point of the Carlton Trail, the main overland route for Metis freighters between the Red River Colony and the west and an important stop on the York Factory Express route between London, via Hudson Bay, and Fort Vancouver in the Columbia District. The fifth and final Fort Edmonton was the one that evolved into present-day Edmonton. Fort Edmonton was also called Fort-des-Prairies, by French-Canadians trappers and coureurs des bois, and Amiskwaskahegan or "Beaver Hills House" by the Cree Indians during the 19th century.