We traveled through an incredible part of Alberta to visit Rocky Mountain House Historical Park where David Thompson spent the years of 1808 thru 1811. This was actually a home base for him while he did his exploring. He actually had spent time in the early 1800's there also. Here at this site the Hudson Bay Company and it's adversary the Northwest Company both built forts in which to receive the local Indians and their pelts of Beaver, Wolf, Coyote, Wolverine, Fishers Bear, Elk and Deer. By 1876 the last remaining house was disassembled and the wood was floated downstream on the Saskatchewan River to Calgary to use in building other forts for trading.
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