Ile A La Crosse


Lake and trading-post. The lake is on the upper

waters of the Churchill River, in about long. 108 deg. Its name is derived

from the Indian game of lacrosse, which was very popular there. The

first trading-post was built on a peninsula on the western side of the

lake by Thomas Frobisher in 1776. Other forts were built there later by

the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, the lake being a

strategic point in the western fur trade.



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