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  Location in Alberta | |
| Location | Smoky Lake, Alberta, Canada |
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| Coordinates | 54°00′14″N 112°23′53″W / 54.00384°N 112.39810°W |
| Type | National Historic Site, Cultural landscape |
| Website | Victoria Settlement |
| Official name | Victoria District National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | 17 October 2001 |
Fort Victoria, near present-day Smoky Lake, Alberta, was established by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1864 on the North Saskatchewan River as a trading post with the local Cree First Nations.[1] It had previously been settled in 1862 as a Methodist Missionary site, on the location of an aboriginal meeting place. It was named Victoria Settlement, after Queen Victoria.[2][3][4]
Today, it is a historical museum known as Victoria Settlement. The nearby rural residences make up Pakan, Alberta. Metis Crossing Cultural Heritage Gathering Centre is nearby.[5]
- ^ "Alberta Register of Historic Places". hermis.alberta.ca. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Losey, Timothy C.; Prager, Gabriella (1975). "A Consideration of the Effects of the Demise of Bison on the Subsistence Economy of Fort Victoria: A Late 19Th Century Hudson's Bay Company Post". Bulletin (Canadian Archaeological Association) (7): 162–182. ISSN 0315-761X. JSTOR 41242402. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- ^ Sutherland, Paul. "Fort Pitt to Edmonton: the other route." Alberta History 60, no. 4 (2012): 17+. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed October 21, 2021). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A307917996/AONE?u=nysl_oweb&sid=googleScholar&xid=f1dcaf22.
- ^ "Métis Crossing Cultural Heritage Gathering Centre in Smoky Lake, AB". Metis Crossing. Archived from the original on 2023-01-09. Retrieved 2023-01-09.