Sturgeon Lake


On the Saskatchewan. A notable place in the annals of

the Western fur trade. Here the traders from Montreal built a post about

1772; and in 1774 Samuel Hearne built a rival post for the Hudson's Bay

Company. The latter, Cumberland House, remained an important centre of

the fur trade for many years, and is still in operation. By way of this

lake, the fur traders' route lay north to Frog Portage and the Churchill

River. =Index=: (Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Frobishers build trading-post there in 1772, 4; its

strategic importance, 4.



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