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close by, taking advantage of the same two rivers; in a possible revelation of the competitive nature of the companies, Fort
Augustus and Edmonton House's distance was described as being a "musket-shot" apart, yet the proximity also offered mutual security to the European traders of both companies in
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in 1846. They wrote: "Without attempting to describe the numerous
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Edmonton. With Rundle having trouble controlling the department in 1848, Lacombe easily took up residence in the former Methodist chapel. Lacombe took pity on the fur trade labourers, opining that, "during the summer months, was as hard as that of the African slave.". He found
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Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Warre and Vavasour reported that the mountain passes were unsuitable for troop transport. Their mission took them through Fort Edmonton in the fall of 1845, and again on their way back to
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in 1821. After the amalgamation, the companies used the Hudson's Bay Company name. The name Fort Augustus was dropped, and John Rowand, the former NWC factor, became chief trader of the HBC's
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heritage site elsewhere in the city, but it never did. A few were saved and still possibly exist in city museums or in Rowand House, but most were said to be accidentally burned in a
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the naming of today's Mill Creek. In the years immediately succeeding that move, the two furtrading companies, the HBC and the NWC, had a strong and violent rivalry, peaking with the
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By the 1890s, the fort was in disrepair and largely abandoned. The Hudson's Bay Company transitioned to retail stores, and business in Edmonton ran from one of those instead.
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in what is now Edmonton's downtown core. The outward face of an old HBC department store still exists there, but the building is presently inhabited by a branch of the
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While the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company still operated separate posts, in direct competition with each other, the two posts were built inside a shared
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the same name for differently-located forts. It is from this muddle that the present-day City of Edmonton bears the name that it does.)
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as a company chaplain. Rundle's tenure lasted until 1848, and his ministry and missionary work was met with competition of a sort by
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755:Remaining administrators
483:Canadian Rocky Mountains
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1979:1978 Commonwealth Games
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674:York Factory Express
567:John Edward Harriott
556:Fort Edmonton, 1870.
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1999:City Centre Airport
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