Fort Livingstone, Saskatchewan

Fort Livingstone, Saskatchewan was founded as an outpost in Northwest Territories, Canada.

The outpost briefly served as the capital city for North-West Territories government and headquarters for the North-West Mounted Police.

The Fort Pelly-Livingstone Museum (c. 1912-1923) is a Municipal Heritage Property on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. The site was designated a historical site by the Saskatchewan provincial government.

The nearest inhabited site is Pelly, Saskatchewan.


The following clip from: The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan Details
Sir Samuel Benfield Steele’s association with Saskatchewan was as a North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and military officer. Steele was born in Medonte Township, Upper Canada on January 5, 1849. He joined the militia and participated in the campaigns against the Fenian incursions of 1866 and the Red River Rebellion of 1870. Upon hearing that the government intended to form a mounted police force for the North-West Territories, Steele applied to join and was accepted into the NWMP with the rank of staff-constable in 1873. This was the beginning of a distinguished thirty-year career with the NWMP, in which he participated in the March West, served during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and fought in the North-West Resistance. Steele’s initial duties with the force involved patrolling the frontier, breaking horses, training recruits, carrying out reconnaissance patrols, and policing whiskey traders. In August 1875, Steele was promoted to chief constable and assigned to Swan River Barracks (Fort Livingstone, Saskatchewan). He was part of the NWMP contingent stationed at Fort Walsh in October 1877, when the Sioux led by Sitting Bull sought refuge there from the United States government. READ MORE @ The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan Details