Fort Victoria, Alberta

Fort Victoria
Fort Victoria, Alberta is located in Alberta
Fort Victoria, Alberta
Location in Alberta
LocationSmoky Lake, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates54°00′14″N 112°23′53″W / 54.00384°N 112.39810°W / 54.00384; -112.39810
TypeNational Historic Site, Cultural landscape
WebsiteVictoria Settlement
Official nameVictoria District National Historic Site of Canada
Designated17 October 2001 (2001-10-17)

Fort Victoria, near present-day Smoky Lake, Alberta, was established by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1864 on the North Saskatchewan River as a trading post with the local Cree First Nations.[1] The site had previously been used starting in 1862 as a Methodist Missionary site, on the location of an aboriginal meeting place. It was named Victoria Settlement, after Queen Victoria.[2][3][4]

Today, it is a historical museum known as Victoria Settlement. The nearby rural residences make up Pakan, Alberta. Metis Crossing Cultural Heritage Gathering Centre is nearby.[5]

  1. ^ "Alberta Register of Historic Places". hermis.alberta.ca. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Losey, Timothy C.; Prager, Gabriella (1975). "A Consideration of the Effects of the Demise of Bison on the Subsistence Economy of Fort Victoria: A Late 19Th Century Hudson's Bay Company Post". Bulletin (Canadian Archaeological Association) (7): 162–182. ISSN 0315-761X. JSTOR 41242402. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  4. ^ Sutherland, Paul. "Fort Pitt to Edmonton: the other route." Alberta History 60, no. 4 (2012): 17+. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed October 21, 2021). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A307917996/AONE?u=nysl_oweb&sid=googleScholar&xid=f1dcaf22.
  5. ^ "Métis Crossing Cultural Heritage Gathering Centre in Smoky Lake, AB". Metis Crossing. Archived from the original on 2023-01-09. Retrieved 2023-01-09.