Fort Carlton Provincial Historic Park west of Duck Lake hosted a special interpretive event on August 7 highlighting what life was like for people that lived in the fort during the fur trade era in the late 1800s. The candlelight event is slated to take place again this weekend on August 14. Interpreters in period costume told true anecdotes of events that occurred at the fort and what general conditions were like. Visitors to the fort were guided by interpreters through the reconstructed fur trading store, clerk’s quarters, and fur storage area. Fort Carlton began as a fur-trade post, and was later utilized by the North West Mounted Police as a police post during the Northwest Resistance. Click on the photo gallery link on the Gazette web page to see additional photos.