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of the Hudson's Bay Company, William Holmes of the North West Company and an independent Frenchman named Champagne. In the next season Donald McKay joined the HBC; Gregory, McLeod joined the NWC; and Champagne left the area. This left the HBC's Manchester House at the upper end of the island and the
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of the NWC reported the houses in ruins. The island is not easily accessible, but in 1991 a memorial stone and plaque were erected on the river bank. As of September 2014, the plaque is still in place on top of high hill overlooking Pine Island.
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entered the NWC post pretending to trade. When it became apparent that they intended to plunder the fort, a bold clerk took arms and drove them off. (The Gros Ventres and Mandans, who were at war with the Cree and the
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broke his leg here in 1788. In 1792 Isaac Batt, a moderately well-known trader, went south with a group of Indians to hunt on the prairie and was murdered by them. In 1793 a large group of
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tribes, thought that the traders were selling guns to the Cree.) In the same year Manchester House was plundered, and the traders escaped with only the clothes on their backs. In 1794
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Pine Island is on a south-flowing part of the North Saskatchewan River, about 50 km east of
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In 1786 five independent groups established themselves on the island. First was
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NWC's Pine Island Fort at the lower end. Here in 1788 the HBC built the first
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were trading posts on Pine Island, a small narrow island on the
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Let Them Be Remembered: The Story of the Fur Trade Forts
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directly north of Maidstone and a house belonging to
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Manchester Square
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inline citations
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introducing
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North Saskatchewan River
Saskatchewan
North West Company
Hudson's Bay Company
Lloydminster
Maidstone
Donald McKay
Gregory, McLeod and Co.
William Tomison
York boat
David Thompson
Gros Ventres
Plains
Duncan McGillivray
Edward Umfreville
Donald McKay
Saskatchewan River fur trade
"Mackay, Donald"
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
University of Toronto Press
ISBN
0-8020-4033-0
Pine Island Trading Post Protected Area
Photograph of the historical marker

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