Note 177 — Chapter XXIV
J. V. (Jedediah Vincent) Huntington translation
Pembina River is the largest southern affluent of the Athabasca. It was discovered and explored by Thompson in 1799. The name is from a berry found on its bank.
Fort Augustus was built about 1809, after the destruction of an older fort of the same name, some twenty miles farther up on the Saskatchewan. It became the principal post of the region, and under the name of Edmonton is still a Hudson’s Bay station, and the terminus of the Edmonton branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway.—Ed.