Fort Walsh - Moose Jaw Trail
N 49° 58.039 W 107° 55.524
13U E 290218 N 5539099
Located in Pelletier Regional Park.
Waymark Code: WMWKVJ
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Date Posted: 09/16/2017
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As the plaques read:
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Fort Walsh - Moose Jaw Trail
The trail between Fort Walsh and Moose Jaw, via the north end of Old Wives Lake, crossed at the south end of Lac Pelletier.
Probably developed much earlier by Indians and Metis, it was used in the late 19th Century by the NWMP Patrols from Fort Walsh and Eastend to Lac Pelletier and by ranchers and homesteaders.
In the immediate vicinity Norbert Pelletier filed the first homestead entry on August 14, 1886.
Piste Fort Walsh- Moose Jaw
La Piste qui relie fort Walsh et Moose Jaw, en direction du cote nord du lac old wives, passait egalement par la pointe sud du lac Pelletier.
Probablement tracee beaucoup plus tot par les Indiens et les Metis, elle devenait, a la fin du dix-neuvieme siecle, la route suivie par les agents de police montee qui patrouillaient entre for Walsh et Eastend jusqu'a lac Pelletier, et aussi par les eleveurs de bestiaux et les premiers fermiers.
C'est dans le district avoisinant que Norbert Pelletier s'installa sur la premier concession, enregistree le 14 aout, 1886.
A Saskatchewan Historic Site
Saskatchewan
Department of Natural Resources
Marker type: plaque on post
Marker placement date: Not listed
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