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    Fort Whoop-Up was the nickname (eventually adopted as the official name) given to a whisky trading post, originally Fort Hamilton, near what is now Lethbridge...
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  • The Whoop-Up Trail, also known as the Macleod-Benton Trail was a wagon road that connected Fort Benton, Montana, to Fort Hamilton, Alberta. The trail was...
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    Canada's centennial. It is based on the flag that was once flown at Fort Whoop-Up. As a result of the Canadian Centennial in 1967, there was a resurgence...
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    started a whiskey trading post at Fort Hamilton, near the future site of Lethbridge. The post's nickname became Fort Whoop-Up. The whiskey trade led to the...
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    Indian Battle Park (category Whoop-Up Trail)
    valley urban park system of Lethbridge, Alberta. The park is home to Fort Whoop-Up, Helen Schuler Nature Centre and the High Level Bridge. The 150-acre...
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  • Overseas Territory of Bermuda. Fort Whoop-Up, a historic fort near Lethbridge, Alberta, originally named Fort Hamilton. Fort Hamilton High School, a high...
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    1874 by the North-West Mounted Police in their March West from Fort Dufferin to Fort Whoop-Up. A number of highways in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and...
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    to proceed west from Fort Dufferin to deal with what the authorities described as the "band of desperadoes" around Fort Whoop-Up, before then dispersing...
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    burned down, but they rebuilt it and eventually it came to be nicknamed Fort Whoop-Up. The whisky traded at this post was often not much more than alcohol...
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  • Segment of the Whoop-Up Trail was the location of campsites for travellers along the Whoop-Up Trail between Fort Benton, Montana and Fort Hamilton, Alberta...
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    Trent Affair (1861) Chesapeake Affair (1863) Fenian raids (1866-71) Fort Whoop-Up (1869-74) Annexation Bill of 1866 Roberts, Ken. Command Decisions. Center...
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    Cree-Assiniboines (Young Dogs), had stumbled upon a Peigan camp near Fort Whoop-Up (called by the Blackfoot Akaisakoyi - "Many Dead") and decided to attack...
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  • Register of Historic Places. Fort Vermilion. Canadian Register of Historic Places. History, Fort Whoop-up Fort Whoop-Up. Canadian Register of Historic...
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  • of foundation List of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts List of French forts in North America Former colonies and territories in Canada Timeline of the...
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    of the force at Fort Dufferin. The force was given orders to proceed to Fort Edmonton in order to resolve problems around Fort Whoop-Up, before then dispersing...
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  • Fort Edmonton Fort Victoria Fort Whoop-Up Fort Defiance Fort Langley Fort Victoria Fort St. John Fort Bourbon Fort Dauphin Fort des Épinettes Fort Douglas...
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    John Healy (entrepreneur) (category People from Fort Benton, Montana)
    larger post nearby was given the name of Fort Whoop-Up. Healy sold the fort to Dave Akers in 1876. He then took up work as the sheriff of Chouteau County...
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  • battle site. The battle itself is commemorated in Indian Battle Park. Fort Whoop-Up Jerry Potts Dodson, 14, quoted at https://web.archive...
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    Rocky Mountain House (category Forts or trading posts on the National Historic Sites of Canada register)
    Blackfeet preferred the Americans' whiskey which they got from places like Fort Whoop-up. Arriving in 1874, the North-West Mounted Police drove out the American...
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    disease were further devastated by the introduction of the whisky trade. Fort Whoop-Up was established in 1869, and whisky traders were active along the Bow...
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    defeat the Blackfoot weakened by smallpox and attacked a camp near Fort Whoop-Up (called Akaisakoyi – "Many Dead"). But they were defeated in the so-called...
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    gambling and carousing, then rode northward with their cattle, only to whoop it up again on their way back. The town soon became home to "Hell's Half-Acre"...
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  • ghost towns in Alberta Prohibition in Canada Prohibition Rum-running Fort Whoop-up Whiskey Gap finds new travellers - The Globe and Mail - August 21, 2006...
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  • and 1874. In 1874, the North-West Mounted Police were dispatched to Fort Whoop-Up in Alberta. They travelled through the United States to the Manitoba...
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    disrupting the Native way of life. Of particular concern was the infamous Fort Whoop-Up near present-day Lethbridge, and the associated Cypress Hills massacre...
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  • Death Whoop is an oil on canvas painting by American artist and career Army officer Seth Eastman. It depicts a Native American warrior holding up the scalp...
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  • along Pot Hole Creek, ran cattle on the open range at New Dayton on the Fort Whoop-up Trail near Deadman Coulee, and Milk River Ridge, and ranched east of...
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    with five works adapted each. Seven female authors had their work adapted. Up through 1951, all adaptations were from work in the public domain. Beginning...
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    1874–75, including a report on combatting contraband alcohol sales in Fort Whoop-Up. Julien spent six months in New York in 1888; upon his return to Canada...
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  • prospector and trader. In 1870, he went north in search of gold to Fort Whoop-Up, a whiskey-trading post started by Healy's older adoptive brother John...
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