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KNOWLEDGE OF Prince Albert
The first white man to come through the area that is now Prince Albert was Henry Kelsey in 1692. The first establishment in the area was a trading post set up by Peter Pond, which the area is now named after (1776).
James Isbister, an Anglo-Metis employee of the Hudson's Bay Company settled on the site of the current city in 1862. He farmed there until 1866, and had been joined by a number of families who called the site Isbister's Settlement. He later moved back to Prince Albert and lived out his remaining days there.
The community was founded in 1866, by Rev. James Nisbet, a Canada Presbyterian Church minister who came to establish a mission for the Cree, who named the community after Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, in honour of the deceased 1861 husband of Queen Victoria.
In 1884 Honore Jaxon and James Isbister were involved in the movement which brought Louis Riel back to Canada.
In the Northwest Rebellion of the following year, Prince Albert volunteers bore the heaviest casualties of the fighting at the Battle of Duck Lake, and surrounding settlers took refuge with the North West Mounted Police in a hastily improvised stockade at Prince Albert fearing an attack by Gabriel Dumont which never came.
After the Battle of Batoche, Major General Frederick Middleton marched on to Prince Albert to relieve the town.
1885 also marks the year that Prince Albert was incorporated as a town under its first mayor, Thomas McKay.
In 1904, the settlement was incorporated as the city of Prince Albert, then named after Prince Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII). Its government is of a council-mayor type.
By odd political coincidence, the federal constituency of Prince Albert has been represented by three prime ministers of Canada:
John George Diefenbaker 13th Prime Minister, became the MP for Lake Centre in 1940 (redistributed into Prince Albert in 1953), Prime Minister from 1957 - 1963,
William Lyon Mackenzie King 10th Prime Minister, represented Prince Albert from 1926 - 1945,
Sir Wilfrid Laurier 7th Prime Minister, represented Prince Albert in the Saskatchewan provisional district (still part of Northwest Territories) in 1896, before returning to his Quebec East riding later that year.
There are three historical museums of high interest in Prince Albert. The combined The Evolution of Education Museum and Rotary Museum of Police and Corrections are located at the tourist information centre just off of Highway #2 South. The second museum, the Historical Society Museum, is located in the original Fire Hall at the north end of Central Avenue on River Street. The John G. Diefenbaker house is a historic site open to the public and is found on 249 19th Street West. Across from the Historical Society Museum, is the site of Diefenbaker's constituency office that is not open to the public.
Famous people from Prince Albert include sprinter Harry Jerome, singer Jon Vickers, and ice hockey player Johnny Bower. Prince Albert was also for a time home to Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables. As well, Boris Karloff, famous for his roles in horror films portraying characters like Frankenstein's Monster and The Mummy, resided in Prince Albert during the early 20th century.
James Isbister, an Anglo-Metis employee of the Hudson's Bay Company settled on the site of the current city in 1862. He farmed there until 1866, and had been joined by a number of families who called the site Isbister's Settlement. He later moved back to Prince Albert and lived out his remaining days there.
The community was founded in 1866, by Rev. James Nisbet, a Canada Presbyterian Church minister who came to establish a mission for the Cree, who named the community after Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, in honour of the deceased 1861 husband of Queen Victoria.
In 1884 Honore Jaxon and James Isbister were involved in the movement which brought Louis Riel back to Canada.
In the Northwest Rebellion of the following year, Prince Albert volunteers bore the heaviest casualties of the fighting at the Battle of Duck Lake, and surrounding settlers took refuge with the North West Mounted Police in a hastily improvised stockade at Prince Albert fearing an attack by Gabriel Dumont which never came.
After the Battle of Batoche, Major General Frederick Middleton marched on to Prince Albert to relieve the town.
1885 also marks the year that Prince Albert was incorporated as a town under its first mayor, Thomas McKay.
In 1904, the settlement was incorporated as the city of Prince Albert, then named after Prince Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII). Its government is of a council-mayor type.
By odd political coincidence, the federal constituency of Prince Albert has been represented by three prime ministers of Canada:
John George Diefenbaker 13th Prime Minister, became the MP for Lake Centre in 1940 (redistributed into Prince Albert in 1953), Prime Minister from 1957 - 1963,
William Lyon Mackenzie King 10th Prime Minister, represented Prince Albert from 1926 - 1945,
Sir Wilfrid Laurier 7th Prime Minister, represented Prince Albert in the Saskatchewan provisional district (still part of Northwest Territories) in 1896, before returning to his Quebec East riding later that year.
There are three historical museums of high interest in Prince Albert. The combined The Evolution of Education Museum and Rotary Museum of Police and Corrections are located at the tourist information centre just off of Highway #2 South. The second museum, the Historical Society Museum, is located in the original Fire Hall at the north end of Central Avenue on River Street. The John G. Diefenbaker house is a historic site open to the public and is found on 249 19th Street West. Across from the Historical Society Museum, is the site of Diefenbaker's constituency office that is not open to the public.
Famous people from Prince Albert include sprinter Harry Jerome, singer Jon Vickers, and ice hockey player Johnny Bower. Prince Albert was also for a time home to Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables. As well, Boris Karloff, famous for his roles in horror films portraying characters like Frankenstein's Monster and The Mummy, resided in Prince Albert during the early 20th century.
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