Bear Island Trading
Post
Since opening in the spring of 1985, the Bear Island Trading Post had been
operating at a loss. At first, the Trading Post was subsidized by a federal
grant through the Local Employment Assistance Program (LEAP). Read
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Hudson's Bay Company at
Bear Island
Eventually, in September of 1834, the Hudson's Bay Company established a post
on the south end of I Temagami Island, just beyond Wabikon, in order to secure
trade of the furs trapped by the natives. Read
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Hudson's Bay Company
Posts in Northern Ontario
A list of some of the approximately 101 Hudson's Bay Company posts in this
Northern Ontario.
Fort Laronde and Lavase
Sites
Fort Laronde was established in North Bay in the late 1700s or early 1800s
by Eustach de Laronde, an independent Metis fur trader associated with the
Northwest Company of Montreal.
The Voyageurs and the
O-daw-ban
Trails radiating from the former Hudson's Bay Company's (HBC) Bear Island
Post on Lake Temagami, Ontario, upgraded by a colorful employee named Petrant
in the 1800s, serve as an excellent example of what could be accomplished.
Some of these still exist (e.g. the portage west of Cattle Is. between L.
Temagami and Gull Lake)
