Fort Espérance

Fort Espérance is a National Historic Site of Canada in Rocanville, Saskatchewan.

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FORT ESPÉRANCE Built on the Qu'Appelle river flats below in 1787 by Robert Grant, Fort Espérance was one of the earliest and most permanent of the North West Company's posts in the Assiniboine basin. It was the main pemmican depot in the Company's continental fur trade, and provisioned brigades to the Churchill and Athabasca regions. Abandoned in 1810, and rebuilt on this knoll in 1816, it was replaced in 1819 by a post 14 miles east at Beaver Creek.

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LE FORT ESPÉRANCE En 1787, Robert Grant construisit ce fort, l'un des premiers postes permanents de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest, en bordure de la rivière Qu'Appelle dans le bassin de l'Assiniboine. Les brigades de canots, destinées aux traiteurs des régions du lac Athabasca et de la rivière Churchill, s'approvisionnaient à ce très important dépôt de pemmican. La Compagnie le délaissa en 1810 et le rebâtit sur cette butte en 1816. Le poste de Beaver Creek, sis à quatorze milles à l'est, le remplaça en 1819.

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