[DOC] [TLE] Fort Edmonton - Wikipedia [PAR] For the historical park which bears its name, see Fort Edmonton Park. "Edmonton 
House" redirects here. For the present day apartment building, see Edmonton 
House (building). Fort Edmonton (also named Edmonton House) was the name 
of a series of trading posts of the ... As one company established a fur trading 
post, the other would counter by... [DOC] [TLE] John Peter Pruden - Wikipedia [PAR] John Peter Pruden, christened on May 31, 1778 at All Saints Parish Church in 
Edmonton, Middlesex, England, was an early pioneer of western Canada which 
at the time was known as Rupert's Land. During his many years of employment 
as a fur-trader with the Hudson's Bay ... It was Bird who sent him to build a house 
(fur-trading post) half-way between... [DOC] [TLE] Fur trade - Wikipedia [PAR] The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal 
fur. Since the ... The European discovery of North America, with its vast forests 
and wildlife, ... They began by establishing trading posts along the Volga and 
Vychegda river networks ..... The fur traders were men with capital and social 
standing. [DOC] [TLE] The Fur Trade - Opening the West - First Peoples of Canada [PAR] By the early 1790s there were posts bordering Alberta. ... In 1806, Simon Fraser 
established Fort St. James as a trading post for the North ... During the winter of 
1805 to 1806, he discovered Carrier Lake, now known as Stuart Lake. ... In 1815, 
the Hudson's Bay Company built a trading post of its own called Fort Douglas. [DOC] [TLE] Fur Trade - The Canadian Encyclopedia [PAR] Sep 19, 2016 ... Fur Trade ... The first French traders established permanent shore bases in 
Acadia ... trading posts at Manhattan and upriver at Orange (what is now Albany 
.... the trade began to revive, largely supported by British capital and ... Not until 
the 1790s did the HBC evolve the York Boatbrigade as an answer to its... [DOC] [TLE] Alberta - The Canadian Encyclopedia [PAR] Feb 10, 2016 ... Alberta's oldest surface landscape is its extreme northeastern part, east of ..... 
down the Athabasca River and established the first fur trading post in the 
province. ... the Athabasca and North Saskatchewan rivers in the 1790s and early 
1800s. .... victory over Calgary for the site of the new provincial capital. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Alberta, past and present : historical and biographical" [PAR] The first period will cover the early explorations and rule of the Fur Traders. .... 
this work is to trace the course of exploration and development in what is now 
Alberta, ... By 1741 he had reached the river and had built Fort Bourbon at its 
mouth on ..... Laurent Leroux, who had established a post at the Great Slave Lake 
in 1786,... [DOC] [TLE] Women of the Fur Trade 1774-1821 - Northwest Journal [PAR] Being a brief introduction to the role of women in the fur trade, and some ... that it 
prompted the establishment of the HBC's first post to be located a significant ... to 
a lake near what is now the eastern border of Saskatchewan, and established ... 
Since the NWC fed and clothed its employees' families, this meant expenses... [DOC] [TLE] Alberta - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Jan 7, 2015 ... Alberta's capital city, Edmonton, is located almost in the geographic center of the 
.... For the next hundred years fur trading dominated most of Alberta. ... Fort La 
Jonquire was established near what is now Calgary in 1752. ... By 1790, both 
companies had competing posts near and across what is now... [DOC] [TLE] Canada facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] In spite of its extensive geographical, cultural, financial, and economic ties with 
the U.S., ... Samuel de Champlain reached the site of what is now Ottawa in 1613
; however, ... As Canada's capital, Ottawa's main business is government and, as 
in ..... the site of an old French trading post, Fort Rouill founded

Question: Founded as a fur trading post in the 1790s, it's now Alberta's capital
Answer: Edmonton