Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada

The Rocky Mountain House Fort is at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at the confluence of the North Saskatchewan and the Clearwater rivers, which is why it is such an important site. The First Nations, the Métis, and European traders used those rivers like highways, transporting their goods to and from the forts, for 76 years Rocky Mountain House was a centre of commerce for the west. The great fur trader and cartographer David Thompson used this site to launch his expeditions, an interesting man who my father shares a name with so we had to find out a bit about him.