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Fort Chesterfield is a name given to several establishments or ships. Things named Fort Chesterfield include: * Fort Chesterfield, a
North West Company The North West Company was a Fur trade in Canada, Canadian fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in the regions that later became Western Canada a ...
trading post built in 1791 on the
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in
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,
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, about twelve miles from the modern village of
Empress, Alberta Empress is a village in southern Alberta, Canada that is adjacent to the provincial boundary between Alberta and Saskatchewan. It is north of Medicine Hat. The village was named, in 1913, for Queen Victoria, who was also Empress of India. In the ...
* Fort Chesterfield, an early 19th-century military fort near the town of Marigot, in the French quarter of
Saint Martin Saint Martin may refer to: People * Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316–397), Bishop of Tours, France * Saint Martin of Braga (c. 520–580), archbishop of Bracara Augusta in Gallaecia (now Braga in Portugal) * Pope Martin I (c. 595–655), bishop of R ...
* Fort Chesterfield, a rebel fort on the north bank of the
Appomattox River The Appomattox River is a tributary of the James River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 in central and eastern Virginia, named for the ...
during the
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* ''Fort Chesterfield'', a British warship built in 1943 (later renamed ''Hawk'', then ''Cabahawk'' under owners from
Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...
and the
Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. ...
) * ''Fort Chesterfield'' (schooner), a
Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), originally the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson’s Bay, is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the oldest corporation in North America. It was the owner of the ...
's motor schooner which served communities along
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during the 1920s


See also

* * Chesterfield (disambiguation) {{SIA Set index articles on ships