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...that Fort Vermilion was established in 1788, being considered the oldest European settlement in Alberta? It was, at the time, a trading community for the North West Company, which also established Fort Chipewyan the same year. Hudson's Bay Company took over the fort in 1821, when the two companies merged. Today, Fort Vermilion is listed as a national historic site of Canada.

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