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Fort Pitt is a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company on the North Saskatchewan River in Canada.
History
Founded in 1830, Fort Pitt was the major Hudson's Bay trading post between Fort Edmonton and Fort Carlton, located at a large bend in the North Saskatchewan River just east of the modern Alberta and Saskatchewan border. It was one of two principal points for signing Treaty No 6 in 1876. On 14 and 15 April 1885, during the North-West Rebellion, Chief Big Bears Cree band besieged the fort and remembered as the Battle of Fort Pitt in which a policeman was killed. The natives permitted the fort's North West Mounted Police detachment to flee downriver and then took the civilian occupants prisoner and looted the post .