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Originally Posted by SHOtime
yes, the southern route was to send a statement to the US that Canada had full intention of not lettimng the US expand north.
The connection the Klondike is vastly over estimated.
I would imagine that Edmonton being thge larger center up until the arrival of the RR was due to trading. The surrounding forest could support a much higher denisty of trapping thus you needed more support services. As a new settler from Europe given a plot of land it would make more sense to go to an area where more services existed, thus continueing the cycle. ....Just my theory.
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Wasn't the 'old' Fort Edmonton used by fur trappers destroyed and located a considerable distance away?
I thought the 'new' Edmonton was more or less the same age as Calgary and built from scratch at that time, where-as Calgary had a very small but still existant fur trapper population base because it had not been destroyed? Maybe i am accelerating my timelines?
Claeren.
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