Dauphin, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

DAUPHIN was founded as a fur-trading post by the French in 1739 and is now a pleasant town that straggles across the flat prairie landscape just to the east of the Vermilion River. Its long Main Street features some good examples of early twentieth-century Canadian architecture, but there's only one real attraction, the Fort Dauphin Museum (May, June & Sept Mon–Fri 9am–5pm; July & Aug daily 9am–5pm; Oct–April by appointment tel 638-6630; $3). This tidy wooden replica of a North West Company trading outpost, located by the river at the end of 4th Avenue SW, … more »