Edmonton House Journals, 1821 – 1826

During the 1820s, Edmonton House re-emerged as the headquarters of a much larger Saskatchewan trading District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Its fur gathering hinterland extended from the southern edges of the boreal forest near present day Westlock, Alberta, south to the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, and from the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers west to the Rocky Mountains – in short, virtually all of what is now central ands southern Alberta, and parts of Saskatchewan and Montana.

The Bow River Expedition, 1822 – 1823 – Seeking to expand the fur trade more completely into what is now southern Alberta and northern Montana, the Hudson’s Bay Company dispatched an expedition of officers and en up the South Saskatchewan River in 1922, with excursions to the Red Deer, Bow, and Oldman Rivers. Though circumstances, such as hostilities by certain Aboriginal groups and the scarcity of timber, persuaded the Company not to build a permanent post during this time, the journal of the expedition contains a wealth of information about the land and the people living on it.

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