Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p For the one in Manitoba see Brandon HouseFort Assiniboine is a hamlet in northwest Alberta, Canada, within Woodlands County. It is located along the north shore of the Athabasca River at the junction of Highway 33 and Highway 661. It is approximately 39 kilometres (24 mi) northwest of Barrhead, 62 kilometres (39 mi) southeast of Swan Hills and 91 kilometres (57 mi) northeast of Whitecourt.Fort Assiniboine was founded as a trading post by the Hudson's Bay Company and became a stopping point along the Klondike Trail. It gets its name from the Assiniboine people.The first post office opened in 1910. By the mid-1950s, the community named after the former trading post incorporated as a village on June 6, 1958. Over 33 years later, the Village of Fort Assiniboine dissolved and reverted to hamlet status on December 31, 1991. It is now administrated by Woodlands County, which has offices in the hamlet and in the Town of Whitecourt.The hamlet's last officially recorded population was 179 people from the 1991 Census of Canada, conducted when it was still a village. Statistics Canada or Woodlands County has not published an official population for Fort Assiniboine from a federal or municipal census respectively since it dissolved to hamlet status at the end of 1991.. }
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- Fort_Assiniboine,_Alberta abstract "For the one in Manitoba see Brandon HouseFort Assiniboine is a hamlet in northwest Alberta, Canada, within Woodlands County. It is located along the north shore of the Athabasca River at the junction of Highway 33 and Highway 661. It is approximately 39 kilometres (24 mi) northwest of Barrhead, 62 kilometres (39 mi) southeast of Swan Hills and 91 kilometres (57 mi) northeast of Whitecourt.Fort Assiniboine was founded as a trading post by the Hudson's Bay Company and became a stopping point along the Klondike Trail. It gets its name from the Assiniboine people.The first post office opened in 1910. By the mid-1950s, the community named after the former trading post incorporated as a village on June 6, 1958. Over 33 years later, the Village of Fort Assiniboine dissolved and reverted to hamlet status on December 31, 1991. It is now administrated by Woodlands County, which has offices in the hamlet and in the Town of Whitecourt.The hamlet's last officially recorded population was 179 people from the 1991 Census of Canada, conducted when it was still a village. Statistics Canada or Woodlands County has not published an official population for Fort Assiniboine from a federal or municipal census respectively since it dissolved to hamlet status at the end of 1991.".