Fort Calgary
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fort-calgary-175-7098242
title:
Fort Calgary
text:
Fort Calgary was a North-West Mounted Police outpost at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in present-day Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Originally named Fort Brisebois, after the outpost's first commander, the outpost was renamed Fort Calgary in June 1876. The outpost was built in 1875 as a part of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) larger effort to curtail American rum and whisky runners in the region, and to establish relationships with the Indigenous peoples of the territory. The fort w
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Fort, historical site and museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Calgary
date created:
2004-09-25T18:49:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T03:38:10Z
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