The Hudson Bay CompanyOriginally, the point which was later to be named Humboldt, Saskatchewan, was simply the spot on the main cart trail from Fort Ellice and Fort Qu'Appelle to Fort Carlton and the far west. At some time it became a resting place and stage depot and then still later, in 1878, when the Dominion Telegraph Line was constructed and an office established at the stage depot, the name Humboldt was given to the post. It was the central point on the prairie section of land about half-way between Selkirk and Edmonton.
The Hudson Bay Company
Land Companies and the Canadian National Railway
Officially becoming a village and a town
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