Editing Fort Edmonton (section)

==Third Fort Edmonton (1810–1812) ==
<small>Coordinates: {{Coord|54|3|40.88243|N|112|16|11.9|W|type:landmark_region:CA-AB}}</small> <ref>{{Cite book|title=Ministerial Order OC 676/76|last=Scmid|first=Horst|publisher=Lieutenant Governor in Council|year=1976|location=Edmonton|pages=5}}</ref>

Both Fort Augustus and Fort Edmonton moved to the mouth of White Earth Creek, 100&nbsp;km northeast of modern [[Edmonton]] at the northernmost point of the North Saskatchewan near present-day [[Smoky Lake, Alberta]]. The fort was also known as Fort White Earth, or Terre Blanche.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4665-0083|title=Fort White Earth, Alberta Heritage Resources Management Information System (HeRMIS)|access-date=October 31, 2019}}</ref> This is located in Township 58-16-W4.<ref>Geographic Board of Canada. Place-names of Alberta. Ottawa: Published for the Geographic Board by the Department of the Interior, 1928</ref>

While the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company still operated separate posts, in direct competition with each other, the two posts were built inside a shared [[palisade]].

This post was only in operation for two years because [[Cree]] trappers were selling their furs at other posts to avoid violent confrontations with the [[Blackfoot Confederacy#First contact with Europeans and the fur trade|Blackfoot]], yet the generally more southerly Blackfoot refused to travel so far off of their normal circles and consequently took their trade south to American furtrading posts.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/newlightonearlyh01henr|title=The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and David Thompson 1799-1814|last=Coues|first=Elliott|publisher=Francis P. Harper|year=1897|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newlightonearlyh01henr/page/n486 451], 563, 584-586, 595, 632-633}}</ref>

After its abandonment in 1812, the forts fell into ruin and little remains of them. There is no official signage on the site. Perhaps a local name for a creek that enters the Saskatchewan on the south side of the river opposite the site commemorates the old forts - its name is Fort Creek.