As a Company post it primarily dealt in provisions, namely pemmican and buffalo robes although other furs were traded as well.

Big Bear (Mistahimaskwa) had used the site in his initial negotiations for Treaty Six in about 1884, and the following year he surrendered here after the last engagement of the rebellion, at Steele Narrows.

[8][9] The Prince Albert blockhouse was employed by the Royal North-West Mounted Police on evacuating from Fort Carlton after the first fire.

Following the Battle of Duck Lake it was abandoned by the police and Prince Albert Volunteers, then it was briefly occupied by Gabriel Dumont's Métis forces.

[11] It features a partial reconstruction of the fort c. 1880, including four replica buildings of "Red River frame" construction.