Fort Assiniboine
Fort Assiniboine was founded as a trading post by the Hudson's Bay Company and became a stopping point along the Klondike Trail.By then, trade on Lesser Slave Lake was in decline and the council adopted a resolution in 1823 calling for a fort further up the Athabasca River to reduce transport times.The trail shortened the distance from Jasper House and the Athabasca Pass within the Rocky Mountains, to Fort Edmonton and thence to York Factory on the Hudson Bay.A party on horseback could make the trip from Edmonton to Fort Assiniboine in two to six days, depending on conditions.The old canoe route involved going far north-northeast down the Athabasca to Fort Chipewyan and then southeast through Methye Portage to Lake Winnipeg.[3] No plans existed for its original layout, but, using clues from post administrators' log books and archaeological surveys, a replica was built on the site in 1980.[8] In 1898, when the Chalmers, or Klondike Trail was cut through the Swan Hills, northwest of Fort Assiniboine to Lesser Slave Lake, the location again became a stopping point, with gold seekers crossing the river with a self-service ferry on their overland trek to the Yukon.park and marina, which hosted the Athabasca River Voyageur Canoe Brigade[13] in June 2017, celebrating Canada's 150th birthday.Fort Assiniboine had a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc), characterized by pleasant summers and frigid, although extremely variable, winters.
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