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Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Fur Trade & Mission Sites

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This Alberta Online Encyclopedia offers a website devoted to fur trading and mission sites in Rupert's Land, the area that would become part of Alberta. Listing nine separate sites, there are pictures, and an audio link to the "Heritage Trails" explaining that sites were trading posts with natives, but also more, where human needs and customs came to shape life in the Canadian wilderness.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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