Fort Ellice, a Hudson's Bay Company post, was built near the junction of the Assiniboine and Qu'Appelle rivers in 1831. The Assiniboine River is a long River that runs through the Prairies of Western Canada in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The Qu'Appelle River (kəˈpɛl is a Canadian River that flows 430 km east from Lake Diefenbaker in southwestern Saskatchewan to join the This placed it just east of the present-day Manitoba-Saskatchewan border.
It was an important fort, being a major stopping point on the Carlton Trail, which ran from the Red River settlement to Fort Edmonton. 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 (The section leading from Upper Fort Garry to this district was commonly known as the Fort Ellice Trail. Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine )
A second, more elaborate, structure was built in 1862 by the HBC but its economic life was short-lived as the Company relinquished control of the north west with the 1870 Deed of Surrender. This deed transferred many HBC rights to the new national government.
The fort had one more important role to play in history; it acted as a staging point for part of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) force that was headed west in 1874 to establish law and order in what are now the Canadian prairie provinces. The fort acted as an NWMP post beginning in 1875.
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