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The Fur Trade

So I was doing some thinking about Calgary and Alberta and how its politics arre so very different from the rest of the country and I started to wonder about how it is interesting that the HBC never had any fur trade posts in southern Alberta. Would the difference go back that far?
Most of the rest of the country had fur trade post in proximity but it seems that southern Alberta was pretty devoid of them. So the first settlers would not have had that comfort of having an HBC post near them nor would they have been people here because of the fur trade. Writers from Northrup Frye to Peter C Newman have written about the affect of both the land and the settlement style on the Canadian psyche. Would the lack of the fur trade have anything to do with the style of politics?

posted by Aristo @ 12:52 PM