Cumberland House Provincial Park
The site is the location of the first inland Hudson's Bay Company post in Saskatchewan and the oldest village in the province.[1] A powder magazine shed (used to store explosives) built in 1886 and artifacts from the HBC Northcote steamship are the remaining historic elements on the site.[5] Established in 1774, Cumberland House was an important stop for the transport of goods and passengers by steamship along the Saskatchewan River on routes between Grand Rapids, Manitoba on Lake Winnipeg and Edmonton and Medicine Hat to the west.It also served as a stop for smaller steamships that operated between the Pas and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.Due to the arrival of the railway, steamship travel came to an end and the Northcote was beached at Cumberland House in 1886.