Fort Carlton
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Early Years at the Fort
Originally, Fort Carlton was established to trade for furs. Eventually, furs were replaced with country produce and pemmican.
Trading was conducted between the Hudson's Bay Company and Indian people at this post.
The indian people traded their muskrats, fox, black bear, beaver pelts and buffalo robes, and later on, pemmican, grease, and dried meat, at the post for items such as glass beads to decorate their clothing, guns, blankets, and cloth.
During the trading season, Cree and Assinibion Indian camps dotted the surrounding western plain, and built encampments surrounding the fort.
In the 1800's, large gardens could be found to the southwest where barley, oats, potatoes, peas, beans, carrots, parsnips, radishes, lettuce, wheat and cabbage were tended and harvested by the women and children of the post.
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