Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Park
historic provincial park in Rural Municipality of Kellross No. 247, Saskatchewan
Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Park is the location of a former Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) fur trading post that existed from 1879 to 1909 in the Touchwood Uplands of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. In 1986, the site was designated a provincial park. It is located along Highway 15 in the RM of Kellross No. 247, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of Lestock and 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) east of Punnichy.
The park is 6.76 hectares (16.7 acres) in size and consists of cellar depressions and other archaeological remains from the historic post, including the remnants of the marks left by Red River carts on this segment of the Carlton Trail. There is also a plaque and concrete markers outlining the locations of the original buildings. It is a day-use site only as there are only picnic tables and no other services. Another notable fur trading post,
Last Mountain House, is located 75 kilometres (47 mi) to the west on Last Mountain Lake.
History
The Touchwood Hills Post was one of the few Hudson Bay Company trading posts that was not located on a river and supplied by canoe as it was a re-supply point on the part of the Carlton Trail which ran from Fort Ellice on the Assiniboine River north-west to Fort Carlton on the North Saskatchewan River. The section of the Carlton Trail that went from the Touchwood Hills to the Fishing Lakes was called the Fort Qu'Appelle-Touchwood Hills Trail.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Park” as historic provincial park in Rural Municipality of Kellross No. 247, Saskatchewan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as historic provincial park in Rural Municipality of Kellross No. 247, Saskatchewan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22518168. Authority coordinates are 51.363, -104.098. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1879, 1909 and 1986.
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This entry incorporates text from “Touchwood Hills Post Provincial Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.