This was the NWC’s rival trading post to the HBC’s Fort Edmonton. Always in close proximity, usually “within a musket’s shot,” the Forts Augustus and Edmonton occupied a few different sites from 1795 across the North Saskatchewan River from present-day Fort Saskatchewan to the final spot in 1830 just below the current site of the Alberta Legislature buildings in Edmonton. Fort Augustus ceased operations when the two companies merged in 1821. The name was that of George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales (1762–1830), who, after the long reign of his father George III, became George IV in 1820.