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.