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Qu'Appelle Crossing
GPS:	50d 46.61m N	103d 47.18m W	1957 feet
Location:	Fort Qu'Appelle.
The old ford on the Qu'Appelle River just south of here was once the cross-roads of the west. Indians, hunters, and traders used it long before the Hudson's Bay Company built Fort Qu'Appelle in 1864 just upstream on the south flat. In 1882, the C.P.R. passed 20 miles to the south, settlement of this region followed, and the crossing became a vital link with the north. In the last half of the nineteenth century, the following important trails converged and crossed the river at this point: two from Wood Mountain, one from Fort Walsh, one from the elbow of the South Saskatchewan, one from Battleford and Prince Albert, one from Fort Pelly, and two from Fort Ellice.