William (Bill) Armstrong's photos with the keyword: HBC

This may look like just another Saskatchewan landscape photo, but there is a lot of history here. In the winter of 1871-1872 fur trader Isaac Cowie established a Hudson Bay Company post here. In 1873 60 Metis families settled here, because the buffalo were moving west, and it traveling from Winnipeg for the annual hunt was becoming longer. They called it Chapel Coulee. In 1877 the North-West Mounted Police established a detachment here, which was later expanded after Sitting Bull and his followers fled north of the Medicine Line after the battle of the Little Big Horn. Decades later a man known as Corky Jones ranched in this area, and became a self-taught palaeontologist after he discovered dinosaur bones in the hills around Eastend.

A flag bearing the coat of arms of the Hudson 's Bay Company, with the Latin motto roughly translated as, "Skin for leather." Since beaver pelts were the primary item traded by the HBC, four are depicted on the coat of arms, which also includes two elk and a fox.