Hutton

Hutton lies in the upland country north-east of Prince George, where the Fraser and Nechako rivers meet and the Rocky Mountain Trench runs through forested hills and the McGregor River valley. This was the homeland of the Dakelh, whom fur traders called Carrier, and their hunting and fishing grounds lay along the rivers and mountain valleys.

The North West Company explorer Simon Fraser founded Fort George in 1807 at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers, in the homeland of the people whose name means "people of the confluence of the two rivers". Fort St. James, founded in 1806 on Stuart Lake, was the main post of the New Caledonia district. After the 1821 merger of the two companies, both posts came under the Hudson's Bay Company.