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Urban Settlement: Rupert's Land, HBC reserve, and early Edmonton | City of Edmonton Archives

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Urban Settlement: Rupert's Land, HBC reserve, and early Edmonton

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How Edmonton's settlement sat inside the Hudson's Bay Company reserve after Rupert's Land entered Canada in 1870, and how reserve boundaries framed early growth (101 Street east, 121 Street west, river south, 127 Avenue north, per period narrative).

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When: 1870 - 1892
Time Period: Urban Settlement: 1870-1904

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Big House, Fort Edmonton

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Fort Edmonton Park

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Derived from: Urban Settlement: 1870-1904

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