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History Bytes March 23, Buttertown_

My name is Sheila Willis of Impact Tourism, the developer of the History Check Mobile App. Welcome to History Bytes, your dose of Alberta Historical Trivia. Brought to you in partnership with Belt Drive Betty Media and the Canadian Motorcycle Tourism Association.

You can Register to answer the questions for a shot to win prizes or just take the quiz to satisfy your own brainpower! Either way, we are excited to see how much of Alberta’s History you really know!

Yesterday's question was:

Across the Peace River from Fort Vermilion was an area known as ___?

A Lambert’s Lane
B Buttertown
C Cornwall Place

Answer B Buttertown

The area around Fort Vermilion was inhabited by Dane-zaa (Beaver), Dene and later Cree First Nations long before the arrival of European traders and settlers.

Fort Vermilion was established as a fur trading post in 1788, following the expeditions of Alexander MacKenzie. By 1830 it was a prosperous fur trading post and in 1877 the first Anglican church was built.

Buttertown, or North Vermilion Settlement, was located across the Peace River from Fort Vermilion and was based on the River Lot system.

Landowners held one or more lots with river frontage and land for dwelling, pasture and gardens and this system remains in place to this day.

Buttertown is connected to several key figures in Canadian history. River Lot 7 is the former site of Jim Cornwall’s store. Cornwall was also known as Peace River Jim or the Apostle of the North and is one of my history heroes for a variety of reasons.

After 1906 it, along with other Bredin & Cornwall posts, became part of the holdings of Revillon Frères. This French fur and luxury goods company directly competed with the monopolistic Hudson’s Bay Company.

Buttertown’s first pool hall, built by Augustus Lizotte on River Lot 7, was moved to lots 9, 13, and then the La Fleur’s family lot, number 14.

There is a historic driving tour of Buttertown which I have been fortunate enough to take while I was in Fort Vermilion. One of my favorite all time sites is the St. Louis Roman Catholic Church and accompanying cemetery.

Its construction began in 1906, by Father Jeremy Lavoie (OMI) with the help of the community. The Church was officially blessed on March 20, 1909. Like many other buildings in Buttertown, the St. Louis Church was built using hand-hewn logs.

The small building next to the church served as the priest’s residence. Mass was celebrated at the chapel for decades.

Fort Vermilion is one of the oldest two European settlements in Alberta - Fort Chipewyan is the other.

In addition to the sites in Buttertown, the Fort Vermilion community has restored the Old Bay House, Fantasy North Golf & Country Club uses an HBC Building as their clubhouse, and Hydway Hardware and the Trapper Shack are also housed in HBC Buildings.

Before I ask the next question, I need to let you know I will be taking a week off to try and restore my poor voice. When we come back on March 29th, We will be doing History Bytes on Sunday, Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. This gives us a bit more time to find the best stories to share.

And the Question for March 29th is:

In November 1936 a murder that some headlines described as the worse mass murder in Alberta’s history took place in:

A Ponoka
B Red Deer
C Tieland



Come back March 29th for the answer and the story that goes along with it.
Then we will load you up with the next question.. Enjoy!

Research & Credits:

Fort Vermilion Historical Guide
https://mackenziefrontier.com/wp-cont...
Glenbow Museums & Archives
http://ww2.glenbow.org

Peel’s Prairie Provinces; University of Alberta Libraries
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/

Provincial Archives of Alberta
https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/

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