This area of the website will highlight some of these early explorers and travellers to our area and what they had to say about the area on their trip through the region.
1815 - John Rowan North West Company - blazed the trail
1825 - Governor Simpson, H.B.C-declared the trail
- - Isadore Dumont - moved his family to Red Deer
- - Fathers Blanchet and Demers - first priests west
- - Gabriel Dumont moved to Frt Pitt.
- - James Sinclair - guided 200 settlers to B.C.
- - Métis fur brigade - Lac La Biche to Fort Garry
- - Paul Kane - wandering artist
1848 - Fur brigades taking furs west for Russia
- - Bishop Taché - first visit west
- - Sutherland - herded 300 sheep.
- - Captain Palliser - mapping expedition
- - Earl of Southesk - hunting trip
1859 - Sisters, Emery, Lamy, Alponse - First nuns west
1862 - Overlanders - 97 carts to B.C. gold Fields
1862 - George and John McDougall - Methodist missionaries
- - H.B.Co. fur brigade - 100 carts were common
- - Chief Big Bear moves to Fort Pitt area
1867 - Father Lacombe - by dog team to Fort Garry
1871 - Sir Sanford Fleming - C.P.R. Survey
- - Inspector Jarvis - with 23 mounted police
- - E.W. Jarvis - C.P.R. Survey
- - Hon. Morris and Treaty Six Commissioners
1885 - Strange, Middleton, Steele, Otter - with troops
1892 - Ranchers - Beliveau, Cote, Matheson, Russell
1902 - Salter family - mail route
1907 - Early settlers
- - Poisson - first Paradise Hill merchant
- William Bartlett - Hunter to Long Lake
- - Dr. Allen - brought Indiana settlers
- - New England French pioneers to Paradise Hill
- - Minnesota Slovenian group to Deer Creek
1927 - Lillian Ailing - walking home to Russia
