Voorhis Interactive: Posts of the Trade

South Branch House (2)   NWC GMaps
ID: 653  Voorhis Number: 543 ;   Location: Saskatchewan, Canada [52.89, -106.032] ;    Founded: 1805 , Closed: post1794 .

North West Co. fort about 1000 yards from the Hudson's Bay Co. fort of same name. Built about 1791. This was attacked by the Falls Indians June, 1794 after they had destroyed the H. B. Co. fort, but they were repulsed. The N. W. Co. fort was soon after abandoned. In 1805 the Company rebuilt about 6 miles farther upstream, within a few hundred paces of the new H. B. Co. fort, after abandoning their (N. W. Co.) Chesterfield House which was at the forks of Red Deer & Bow rivers. Harmon visited this fort in 1805. After union of the two Companies in 1821 the Hudson's Bay Co. took over this fort and operated it until about 1870. Map No. 8.



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