Carlton Trail

Connecting the west, the trail was of great importance during the 19th century as a highway for travellers.

Historical accounts record that it took about two months to travel by Red River cart from Fort Garry to Edmonton along the Carlton Trail.

[2] The main mode of transport along the trail was by horse-drawn Red River Cart.

It was an integral route for Métis freighters, and Hudson's Bay Company employees as well as the earliest white settlers.

By the early 1900s many portions of its length had been fenced off where it bisected plots of agricultural land, but sections of the trail, such as Victoria Trail in Edmonton and a length near Victoria Settlement, remain in use to this day.