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  • Wooden boats crewed by colourful voyageurs meet crowds of HBC employees, Métis, and First Nations on the bank below an expansive wooden fort. First Nations tipis also crown the nearby hills.

    The Company and the Combination: Collective Bargaining at the River’s Edge

    Tom Long

    In 1853, a group of voyageurs shipping furs from Fort Edmonton put down their oars in solidarity with one of their crew members. It was an early murmuring of organized labour in the West: not quite a strike, not quite a mutiny, but very much a show of strength and unity.

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  • Louise Umphreville: The Shining Star

    Jenna Chalifoux

    In August  of 1782, Fort York was captured by the French. Edward Umphreville and some other HBC men were taken by…

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  • Louise Umphreville: Edmonton’s Forgotten First Lady

    Tom Long

    History is how we understand the past and that understanding is based on records made and kept by biased hands….

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  • François Lucier and the Fight Against Horse Thieves

    Lauren Markewicz

    Horses were a vital resource at Fort Edmonton and hundreds were kept by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) in the…

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