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Fraser’s 1805 Westward Fur Posts Begin BC Trade Era
Simon Fraser and the North West Company forged a western trading network in 1805. Fraser’s party built Rocky Mountain Portage House at Hudson’s Hope and the first west of the Rockies at McLeod Lake, later Fort Misery, with crews laboring by hand to establish forts and secure the fur trade routes into British Columbia for the coming spring.
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Rocky Mountain House
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Rocky Mountain Portage House
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Fort Misery
Fort McLeod
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Rocky Mountains Portage House