Frog Portage

Or Portage de Traite, leading from the Saskatchewan

River, by way of Cumberland Lake, the Sturgeon-Weir River, Heron,

Pelican, and Woody Lakes, to the Churchill. It was discovered by Joseph

Frobisher, who built a temporary trading-post there in 1774. Two years

later Thomas Frobisher built a more substantial fort at the same place.

He was joined there in that year by Alexander Henry, and plans were

matured for intercepting the western Indians on their way down the

Churchill to trade at Prince of Wales Fort. Alexander Mackenzie says

that the Indians called the portage Athiquisipichigan Ouinigam, or the

Portage of the Stretched Frog Skin. =Bib.=: Bryce, Hudson's Bay

Company; Burpee, Search for the Western Sea.