Fort Qu'Appelle is a town located in the Qu'Appelle Valley in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. Motto: Multis E Gentibus Vires (Latin: From many peoples, strength) Official languages English Capital Regina Largest city Saskatoon Lieutenant-Governor Lynda M. Haverstock Premier Lorne Calvert (NDP) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 14 6 Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 7th 651,036 km² 9. ...

The town of Fort Qu'Appelle is approximately 65 kilometres north-east of Regina, the provincial capital, between Echo and Mission Lakes, the second and third of the four Fishing Lakes. It is immediately adjacent to the site of the original Fort Qu'Appelle Hudson's Bay Company trading post, whose "factory" is maintained as a historical site and museum. (The 1897 Hudson's Bay stone department store building remains standing on Main Street, though long disused by the Bay.) The surrounding area is home to grain and cattle farms, small rural communities and sixteen Indian reserves. Fort Qu'Appelle has the largest detachment of RCMP per capita in the country. Regina, Saskatchewan Regina was the territorial headquarters of the Canadian North West Territories (and district headquarters of the District of Assiniboia) prior to the creation of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1905; since then it has been capital of the province of Saskatchewan. ... The Fishing Lakes are a chain of four lakes in the QuAppelle Valley cottage country some 40 miles to the northeast of Regina, Canada. ... The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC. TSX: HBC) is the oldest corporation in Canada (and the second oldest in North America) and is one of the oldest in the world still in existence. ...

The current site is the third Fort Qu'Appelle. The first was Northwest Company trading post (1801-05) in the valley near what is now the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. The Hudson's Bay Company itself (after the unification of the HBC and the Northwest Company) first used the name for a post north of present-day Whitewood (some 100 miles east of Regina on Number 1 Highway) from 1813 to 1819. The current site was a Hudson's Bay Company post from 1852 to 1854 and again from 1864 to 1911. The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in the city of Montreal in British North America. ...

The town's substantial growth apart from its status as a Hudson's Bay Company "factory" first occurred in the 1880s and 1890s when European settlement began in the region as the railway moved westwards. This coincided with the first development of British India after the seizing of control of India from the East India Company by the Crown after the 1857 Indian Mutiny, and the town of Fort Qu'Appelle's striking similarity to the Indian hill stations of the early Raj has been widely commented upon by anyone who has seen both. Older residences and commercial premises together with the town's Anglican and United (formerly Presbyterian) churches are quintessentially of the 19th century hinterland British Empire, a matter which local civic boosters appear not yet to have capitalised upon.

Despite the accelerating decline of rural Saskatchewan in the post-World War II years, the town grew through most of the 1950's and 1960's as a cottage community serving the four Qu'Appelle Lakes that occupy the valley surrounding the town. Cottagers from Regina and other southern Saskatchewan communities used Fort Qu'Appelle as a base from which to explore the scenic and historic river valley, purchase hardware and groceries and contract services; the town also benefited urban drift as farms and other towns steadily depopulated. This process was precipitately accelerated in 1964 when the rural school districts were abolished and farm primary and high school children were thereafter bused to town schools. Rural churches having largely closed in the 1950s, the collapse of rural farming communities was now assured, to the benefit of minor metropoles such as Fort Qu'Appelle though arguably to the impoverishment of the community as a whole.

A tuberculosis sanitorium was operated by the provincial department of public health at nearby Fort San; when tuberculosis ceased to be a public health problem the facility was turned into a fine arts complex where a substantial summer program was operated until the early 1990s when the provincial government terminated its funding.

Famous ice hockey bruiser Eddie Shore was born in Fort Qu'Appelle. Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Eddie The Edmonton Express Shore (born November 25, 1902 in Fort QuAppelle, Saskatchewan, Canada - died March 16, 1985) was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League (NHL). ...

External links

• Community website - History of Fort Qu'Appelle
• [1] University of Saskatchewan Library: postcard views of Saskatchewan