FORT VICTORIA

NAME: Fort Victoria COUNTY: N/A ROADS: 4WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Mild summer,cold winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: Central Alberta REMAINS: Old Fort replica.

There is an old building at Fort Victoria now used as a museum. It is worth seeing. Fort Victoria, about eight miles south of the town of Smoky Lake on Highway 28, started out as a Methodist Mission. It became a Hudson’s Bay Company post and evolved into the thriving but tiny village of Pakan only to be abandoned and left derelict. Then, in 1971, it was brought back to life when Alberta’s Heritage Sites branch sent a group of students and graduate archeologists to dig, to study and, hopefully, to restore the village to its former prominence. The replica of the old fort has within its compound miniatures of most everything the old fort once contained. In short, it is one place that no ghost towner will want to pass up. H.B. Chenoweth

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