Elbow- Fort a La Corne
N 52° 55.316 W 105° 48.283
13U E 445898 N 5863890
Located at campsite in St. Louis.
Waymark Code: WMJ6P4
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Date Posted: 10/02/2013
Views: 2
As the plaque reads:
Preserve Our Heritage
Elbow-Fort a la Corne
This site is close to the intersection of two early trails.
One came from Fort a la Corne, crossed this coulee and ran to Batoche where it joined the old hunting trail which followed the right bank of the South Saskatchewan to the Elbow. This route was probably first used by the founders of For a la Corne in 1753. After the Hudson's Bay Company built near the same site in 1850 it carried all the overland traffic between the Metis settlements on the South Branch and that point.
The other trail was a branch of the main 'Saskatchewan' trail which traversed the plains between Fort Garry and Fort Edmonton. It left the main trail near Humboldt and ran North to Prince Albert. Between 1887 and 1898 it crossed the river here just below the hill at McKenzie's Crossing.
Marker type: Cairn
Marker placement date: Not listed
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