Fort Pelly

Fort Pelly was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post located in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

[2] The first Fort Pelly, at 51°46′42″N 102°00′19″W / 51.77833°N 102.00528°W / 51.77833; -102.00528, was constructed by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1824, in the northeast corner of the elbow of the Assiniboine River.

In 1849 Thomas McKay, who would become first mayor of Prince Albert and a prominent territorial politician, was born at Fort Pelly.

This move, to approximately one quarter mile southeast of the original position, was due to problems with occasional flooding at the old location.

During the summers of 1971 and 1972, the former fort sites were excavated by the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, at which time all known buildings were located, and 7,000 objects were recovered.