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Fort Saint John

British Columbia, Canada
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Fort Saint John, city, northeastern British Columbia, Canada, just north of the Peace River, 45 miles (73 km) northwest of Dawson Creek. It originated with the building of a North West Company fort on the river’s north bank in 1805. The Hudson’s Bay Company assumed control in 1821; two years later the fort was destroyed in an Indian attack. Rebuilt in 1860 on the south bank of the river, it has since moved several times. The present fort, built at the beginning of the Sikanni Trail in 1925, formed the nucleus of the community of Fort Saint John, which was ...(100 of 171 words)

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