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"Environmentally Sensitive Area". Please be careful where you walk and try not to disturb the natural environment. For additional information please contact Tourism Saskatchewan. | ||
| Fort Pitt | |||
| GPS: | 53d 34.38m N | 109d 47.53m W | 1770 feet |
| Location: | About 15 kms west of Frenchman Butte on the bank of the North Saskatchewan River. | ||
In the winter of 1829-30, Chief Factor John Rowand of the Hudson's Bay Company built this post to trade in buffalo hides, meat and pemmican with the tribes of the prairies. | |||
For half a century, a major resort of the Cree, Assiniboine and Blackfoot, Fort Pitt was a site of the signing of Treaty No. 6 in 1876. That same year a Mounted Police sub-post was established here. | |||
During the 1885 rebellion, Big Bear's followers burned the fort after the police had withdrawn to Battleford. Fort Pitt was partially rebuilt in 1886 and closed in 1890. | |||
Big Bear, noted warrior and hunter, was one of the foremost champions of the northern Plains Indians. | |||
As a leader of the Plains Cree Big Bear refused to sign Treaty No. 6 and, after 1884, was with Poundmaker in an attempt to unite the treaty bands in the Battle River-Fort Pitt area. | |||
Notwithstanding his attempts to restrain his followers at Frog Lake and Fort Pitt in 1885, he was imprisoned following the rebellion. Released in 1887, he died the following winter on the Little Pine reservation. | |||
| GPS: 53d 34.38m N, 109d 47.53m W, 1770 feet 04 July 96, 5:50 pm, Fuji Velvia 50, F8 1/60s | |||
