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Current sources attribute the name to the canyon of the Boise River near Caldwell.
However, both John Rees and Vardis Fisher believed it is named for the Snake River Canyon which forms a natural boundary for the county. The Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Boise in 1834 near what is now Parma, but abandoned it in 1855. Emigrants traveled through Canyon County on the Oregon Trail Canyon County is on the route most popular with the early traders and was therefore the scene of early explortions and adventures. William Price Hunt and his overland party to Astoria passed here. In 1813 John Reed and his group were massacred near the mouth of the Boise River.