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Discovering History at Fort Pitt | Treaty 6 and the North-West Rebellion【4K】

Fort Pitt was a trade and supply post built in 1829 by the Hudson's Bay Company on the North Saskatchewan River and operated for approximately 70 years. It was built at the direction of Chief Factor John Rowand, in order to trade for bison hides, meat and pemmican. The fort was built where the territories of the Cree, Assiniboine and Blackfoot converged. It was located just east of the present day Alberta–Saskatchewan border and was the major post between Fort Edmonton and Fort Carlton. In 1876, it was one of the locations for signing Treaty 6. Big Bear was a powerful and popular Cree chief who played many pivotal roles in Canadian history. He is most notable for his involvement in Treaty 6 and the 1885 North-West Rebellion. He was one of the few chief leaders who objected to the signing of the treaty with the Canadian government. He felt that signing the treaty would ultimately have devastating effects on his nation as well as other Indigenous nations. The Battle of Fort Pitt which was part of a Cree uprising coinciding with the Métis revolt that started the North-West Rebellion in 1885. In 1885 the fort was home to a detachment of 25 policemen led by Inspector Francis Dickens (son of author Charles Dickens). 200 Cree warriors descended on Fort Pitt and captured it. Surrounded and outnumbered the police garrison abandoned the post, fleeing to safety at Fort Battleford. When Robert Hougham bought Fort Pitt in 1944 and began breaking the land to grow hay he found human remains in unmarked shallow graves beside the site of the fort. He gave half an acre to those remains and built a cairn. He was buried there when he died in 1960. ► Additional Info: https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-... https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c... ► Chapters: 00:00 Intro/Site History 02:04 Exploring the Site 10:43 Outro/Closing 11:07 R.H. Hougham Memorial Cairn Thank you for watching! If you like my content please like, subscribe and leave a comment. If you want to support me further you can click the link below to buy me a coffee. If you leave your name I will personally mention you in an upcoming video. ► Support Me: If you like my content and want to support my channel click the link below Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/exploringwithwade ► Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/explorin... Links included below are Amazon affiliate links. If you purchase a product with these links I may receive a small commission. ► My Gear: Sony Alpha A7 III Camera: https://amzn.to/3ezLDPb Sony FE 20mm f1.8 G Lens: https://amzn.to/3viGzFE Sony FE 28mm f2 Lens: https://amzn.to/32RlplJ Sony FE 24-105mm f4 G Lens: https://amzn.to/3vmUbQi Gobe/Urth ND Filters: https://amzn.to/3sYkDhJ Rode VideoMicro Microphone: https://amzn.to/3aLOzqV DJI Ronin-SC Gimbal: https://amzn.to/3gKU9NV DJI Mini 2: https://amzn.to/3eQSe8j GoPro Hero7 Black: https://amzn.to/3t1YG14 Geekoto AT24Pro Dreamer Tripod: https://amzn.to/3t01ko5 Lowepro Flipside 400 AW II Backpack: https://amzn.to/2S98V77 Sandisk Extreme SD Cards: https://amzn.to/32TqQRh ► Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/ExploringwithW... ► Music Credit: Music by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Filaments' [Classical Crossover CC-BY] - Scott Buckley Please check out his work on YouTube at:    / @scottbuckley   and here: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/ Epidemic Sound - https://www.epidemicsound.com/referra... Music by Amaranth Cove - 'Reconstruct' https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/7... Music by Amaranth Cove - 'Hidden Imagination' https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/4... ► Wikimedia Image Attribution - https://commons.wikimedia.org/ 1. Library and Archives/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada from Canada (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., „Big Bear at Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan, in 1884“ 2. The Illustrated London News (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., „Battle of Fort Pitt“, marked as public domain 3. Unknown photographer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fr..., „Francis Jeffrey Dickens 1884“, marked as public domain 4. Toronto Lithographing Ltd (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., „Evacuation of Fort Pitt“, marked as public domain ► Follow Me: Instagram -   / exploringwithwade   Twitter -   / explorewithwade   Facebook -   / exploringwithwade   ► Contact: Email - [email protected] #fortpitt #historicplaces #exploresaskatchewan