Wood Mountain - Fort Walsh Trail - Saskatchewan Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

As the plaque reads:

The Wood Mountain - Fort Walsh Trail

Fort Walsh was established by the NWMP in 1875 to maintain peace in the Cypress Hills region and to express Canada's sovereignty over its newly acquired North West Territory. Following the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana Territory on June 25, 1876, Sitting Bull and approximately 5000 Lakota sought refuge in Canada's Wood Mountain region. As a result Fort Walsh was made headquarters of the NWMP and a former Boundary Commission depot at Wood Mountain became an important outpost of Fort Walsh Superintendent James Morrow Walsh and the NWMP at Fort Walsh and Wood Mountain were charged with maintaining peaceful relations with the Lakota.

Fort Walsh- Wood Mountain Trail was heavily used during this period for transporting supplies troops & dispatches between Fort Walsh and its outpost at Wood Mountain.

In 1961 the Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society's first President, Everett Baker, and a group of volunteers marked the Fort Walsh-Wood Mountain Trail. They placed 260 white concrete markers topped with directional commemorative plaques along its length. In 199 the Society began to refurbish these markers to ensure that the location of this important historic trail would preserved for the benefit of future generations.

Erected in celebration of Saskatchewan's Centennial- 2005

Marker type: Plaque on post Marker placement date: Not listed

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