Kistapinan

Kistapinan lies on the North Saskatchewan River, at a meeting place of prairie and northern forest. Woodland, Swampy and Plains Cree, Dene and Dakota people frequented this low riverbank. In 1776 independent traders including Peter Pond built Fort Sturgeon a short distance upstream. Two years later Pond left the post for the Athabasca country, following routes already known to Indigenous travellers.