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Whoop-up Hist. 
n. Fort Whoop-up, in southern Alberta, principle centre for the illicit whisky trade with the Indians.
See also: whisky trader
- 1888 Father . . . travelled . . . from the Cree camps to . . . the mountains in Bow River, south-eastward to Fort Benton, on the Missouri, taking in the famous Whoop-up country by the way.
- 1927 Fort Whoop-Up had been built by Trader Hamilton for the purpose of whooping-up the interchange of whiskey and buffalo robes and it was the centre of demoralization in a land of tolerance.
- 1954 He had built the most famous of the whisky forts on Canadian territory, ruled it like a feudal baron, and dubbed it "Whoop-Up," thereby giving a name to the great block of untamed Indian country that straddled the Montana-Alberta border.
- 1888 Father . . . travelled . . . from the Cree camps to . . . the mountains in Bow River, south-eastward to Fort Benton, on the Missouri, taking in the famous Whoop-up country by the way.