About Fort Whoop-Up

It's 1869 and you've got pelts piling up.  The time has come to head to Fort Whoop-Up to sell off your fur, but one thought keeps going through your mind...
Is Today a Good Day To Trade?

 What awaits you at the Fort?


You will find a place bustling with entrepreneurial spirit laced with rebellious corruption.  It's a chaotic centre of 
commerce where danger looms and the air is thick with 
excitement.  You might get shot ... you might get robbed ... but you still come seeking profit and adventure.  Is today a 
good day to trade?  You just won't know until you get here.  
It may be notorious, but always worth the risk!


Dive into the past at Lethbridge's Fort Whoop-Up National Historic Site, commonly referred to as "The Fort".  The Fort has interprets the notorious whiskey fort, Fort Whoop-Up (formerly known as Fort Hamilton).  Through 12 period rooms, three interpretive galleries & ‘Voices from the past interactive elements pay tribute to and commemorate the legacy of the North West Mounted Police, Aboriginal people, the Blackfoot, and colourful scoundrels and events that shaped Western Canada.  For a picture of Alberta's history, for an historical echo, this Fort is the place to be!


The Robe Trade era is brought to life.  Find out about traders, prospectors, merchants sheriffs, reporters, cavalrymen, army scouts, Fort Whoop-Up scoundrels, photographers, or Mounties and other colourful characters that lived, worked and played at Fort Hamilton, later to be Fort Whoop-Up ... now "The Fort".