Lifelong Learning With Connie Gerwing: Three Communities That Made Prince Albert

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The area that is now the city of Prince Albert was a gathering spot for Indigenous people for many generations before anyone settled here. They called it Kistapinanihk. Many Métis people moved west when the fur trade was winding down in the mid-nineteenth century. James Isbister, his brother Adam and Ole Olson and their wives and families, decided to settle near where the penitentiary is today in 1866, the first to do so. A small settlement grew up around them called the Isbister Settlement. James Nisbet, John McKay and George Flett came a couple of years later with their families to start a Presbyterian Mission. They called their settlement Prince Albert. Goschen, on the Hudson Bay Company Reserve, east of the Mission, was a small settlement begun by HBC workers and their families. These three separate settlements were strung along the river flats several kilometers from each other. How did they begin, develop and finally merge into the city we know today?

(From Connie Gerwing)

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