Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
1744 Map of James Bay, including "Fort Saint-Anne", the French name for Fort Albany. Fort Albany was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post established in 1679 near the site of the present day Fort Albany First Nation. The fort was one of the oldest and most important of the Hudson's Bay Company's posts. It was also involved in Anglo-French ...
In late April 2008, Fort Albany experienced its worst flood since 1985, the result of ice floes breaking through the dikes constructed along the Albany River during the annual breakup. 334 people were evacuated to cities further south starting April 28, with around 300 more evacuated the following day out of a total population of around 900.
Map of Rensselaers Wyck anno 1630 with Fort Orange Map of Castle Island and Fort Orange in 1629. In 1624, a ship with 30 Protestant Walloons (people from what is today southern Belgium) landed in New Netherland; 18 of the men were sent to the location near present-day Albany.
Map of Civil War forts near Alexandria, showing Fort Albany (ca. September 1861) Map of Fort Craig and surrounding area including Fort Albany (1865) Fort Albany Historical Marker. Fort Albany was a bastioned earthwork that the Union Army built in Arlington County (known at the time as Alexandria County) in Virginia. The Army constructed the ...
This is a list of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts. [1]For the fur trade in general see North American fur trade and Canadian canoe routes (early).For some groups of related posts see Fort-Rupert for James Bay.
Fort Albany may refer to: Fort Albany First Nation, a Cree First Nation located on James Bay in Ontario, Canada Fort Albany (Ontario), the historical Hudson's Bay Company trading post near the site of which the First Nation was established; Fort Albany (Arlington, Virginia), a bastioned earthwork built during the American Civil War
Fort Frederick was a fort in Albany, New York from 1676–1789. Sitting atop State Street Hill (Capitol Hill) it replaced the earlier decaying Fort Orange along the Hudson River . [ 1 ] The fort was named for Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales , son of King George II . [ 1 ]
Much of the Albany basin was visited by coureurs des bois long before the English penetrated inland. In 1674 Charles Bayly of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) became the first European to see the Albany. Sometime before 1679 the HBC founded Fort Albany at the mouth of the river. In 1685 the French built Fort des Français at the future site of ...