A Plaque at Fort Dunvegan
Plaque commemorating Fort Dunvegan. Plaque reads:
Established in 1805 for the North West Company by Archibald Norman McLeod, Fort Dunvegan was named after the ancestral castle of the McLeods on the Island of Skye. For many years the most important post in the Peace River valley, it was a centre of the fur trade, a link in the chain of communication westward into British Columbia and the scene of early missionary enterprise and agricultural experiment. It was closed as a trading post in 1918.
Construit en 1805 par Archibald Norman McLeod pour la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest, le fort Dunvegan porte le nom du chateau ancestral des McLeod a l'Ile de Skye. Longtemps le poste de traite le plus important de la vallee de la riviere de la Paix, ce fut un cnetre due commerce des pelleteries et un maillon de la chaine de communication vers l'ouest, jusqu'un Columbie-Brittanique. Le fort Dunvegan, tres tot un lieu de mission et d'experiences agricoles, cesse d'etre un poste de traite en 1918.
Photo courtesy of the Heritage Community Foundation.
