Fort Carlton
Southwest of Prince Albert and a short distance north of Duck Lake in Canada along the North Saskatchewan River
Type	Stockade
Built	1810
Construction materials	local wood
In use	1810-1885
Controlled by	Hudson's Bay Company, Canada (North West Mounted Police)
Battles/wars	Battle of Duck Lake

Fort Carlton was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post from 1810 until 1885. Prince Albert is the third-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. Duck Lake is a town in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 88 kilometres north of Saskatoon and 44 kilometres south of Prince Albert on Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The North Saskatchewan River is a Glacier -fed River flowing east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan. The Battle of Duck Lake was a skirmish between Métis soldiers of the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan and Canadian government forces that signaled Year 1810 ( MDCCCX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common It was rebuilt by the Saskatchewan government as a provincial historic park and can be visited today. Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276 It is about 65 kilometers north of Saskatoon. Saskatoon is a city located in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River, with a Fort Carlton is located in the Aspen parkland biome. Aspen parkland refers to a transitional biome between Prairie and Boreal forest stretching from northeastern British Columbia through central and northwestern

As a Company post it primarily dealt in provisions, namely pemmican and buffalo robes although other furs were traded as well. Lawrence Clarke served as its last Chief Factor. Lawrence Clarke (born June 26, 1832 - died October 5, 1890, Prince Albert, Northwest Territories) was the Chief A factor, from the Latin "he who does" (parallel to agent, from Latin agens) is a person who professionally acts as the representative of another individual It was a major base of operations for the Company's Saskatchewan District.

Situated on the Carlton Trail from the Red River Settlement in present-day Manitoba to Fort Edmonton in what is now Alberta, Fort Carlton served as a hub for travellers. The Carlton Trail was the primary land transportation route connecting the various parts of the Canadian Northwest for most of the 19th Century The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement) was a colonization project set up by Thomas Douglas 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1811 on 300000 km² of land granted Fort Edmonton (also named Edmonton House was the name of a series of trading posts of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1795 to 1891 all of which were located in central Alberta (ælˈbɝtə is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1 1905 It was located along the North Saskatchewan River not far from Duck Lake, Saskatchewan. The North Saskatchewan River is a Glacier -fed River flowing east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan. Duck Lake is a town in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 88 kilometres north of Saskatoon and 44 kilometres south of Prince Albert on

Treaty Six between the Canadian monarch and various Cree and Saulteaux First Nations was initially negotiated and signed near the Fort in 1876. Treaty 6 is an agreement between the Canadian monarch and the Plain and Wood Cree Indians and other tribes of Indians at Fort Carlton, Fort Pitt TalkCommonewalth realm.-->The monarchy of Not to be confused with the Creek. Cree is an Exonym applied to various people indigenous to North America namely the Nehiyaw Nehithaw Nehilaw The Saulteaux (also Salteaux and many other variants; ˈsoʊtoʊ are a First Nation in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan First Nations is a term of Ethnicity that refers to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis people

The North West Mounted Police leased the fort from the company in the 1880s, and it was their main base in the Saskatchewan Valley region. The name of a geographic area in Saskatchewan, Canada encompassing generally a triangle from North Battleford, to Saskatoon, north to the Saskatchewan Following the battle of Duck Lake it was abandoned by the police and Prince Albert Volunteers then briefly occupied by Gabriel Dumont's Metis forces, who later chose to withdraw to Batoche. The Battle of Duck Lake was a skirmish between Métis soldiers of the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan and Canadian government forces that signaled The Prince Albert Volunteers, or Prince Albert Rifles, refers to a historical body of Militia organized in Prince Albert Saskatchewan which served Gabriel Dumont (December 1837 – May 19, 1906) was a leader of the Métis people of what is now western Canada. The Métis are descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibway Algonquin, Saulteaux, and Menominee aboriginals to Europeans, Batoche Saskatchewan was the site of the historic Battle of Batoche during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 During the 1885 conflict, the fort was destroyed by fire.

Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker grew up on a farm near Fort Carlton.

External links

• Approaching Fort Carlton

• the Canadian Encyclopedia

• Canadian Registry of Historic Places

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