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Fort Steele, British Columbia, Canada
Located about 10 miles north-east of Cranbrook on Highway 93/95, Fort Steele is easily reached by the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway, No.3, which follows the historic Dewdney Trail much of its length. Gold brought the first rush of settlers to the Kootenays in the 1860's. John Galbraith capitalized by setting up a ferry service at the present site of Fort Steele, then known as Galbraith's Ferry. By the 1880's the introdction of cattle ranching led to diputes with the native people about land ownership. In 1887 Superintendet Sam Steele and 75 men built the first North West Mounted Police post in B.C., restored peaceful relations without firing a shot, and in a year's time returned to the prairies. The grateful settlers changed the name of the site of the post from Galbraith's Ferry to Fort Steele. In the 1890's Fort Steele was the site of a speculative boom, and a town quickly grew up as rumour spread it was to be "capital of Kootenay". However the routing of the railway around Fort Steele in favour of Cranbrook in 1898 turned Fort Steele into a ghost town in a few years. Fort Steele was created a historic park in 1961. Development has aimed at rebuilding a typical Kootenay town of the 1890 - 1905 period.
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