Collection search - [Men (Jim Haley on left), woman, and dogs in front of New Rampart House]. Original title: New Rampart House, [Yukon]

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The Hudson's Bay Company operated a trading post for three years at what they called New Rampart House. This was the third relocation of their post from Fort Yukon after the Americans bought Alaska in 1867. The Fort Yukon post, at the mouth of the Porcupine River, was first moved to a site near Howling Dog Canyon and then to Old Rampart, 32 kilometres west of the international boundary line. These sites along the Porcupine River remained small communities serviced by American fur traders. John Firth was the Hudson's Bay Company trader for the company's last nine years at Old Rampart and he moved the post to New Rampart in 1890. The New Rampart House post was never successful and closed in 1893, after which the Gwich'in traded in Alaska or at Herschel Island.

Title assigned by Library and Archives Canada.

Copy negative available: C-053231.

Date of creation for this photograph is unknown. Range assigned to the album was used.

[Edward Martin Kindle photograph album]