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Fort Kaministiquia (former spellings include Fort Camanistigoyan, Fort Kanastigoya, Fort Kamanastigoya and others), was a French fort in North America. It was located on the north shore of Lake Superior at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River , in modern-day Thunder Bay, Ontario , Canada.
Duluth subsequently established fur trading posts to further French interests at Lake Nipigon and Fort Caministigoyan at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River on Lake Superior, the site of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, probably 1684/85, not 1679 as many sources suggest, and at Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron) between Lake Erie and Lake Huron ...
Fort William was a city in Ontario, Canada, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970.
Fort Kaministiquia was founded by French merchants to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade and seek a route to the western sea. (Daniel Greysolon Dulhut had built a fort, (Fort Caministigoyan), at the same location on the Kaministiquia River in 1679.)
Ruined, he became a soldier in Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit , finishing as a sergeant. He died on 12 May 1745 in Boucherville. Jacques de Noyon’s sister, Marguerite de Noyon, was the great-grandmother of Toussaint Charbonneau, a fur trapper, merchant and the husband of Sacagawea who he joined in the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Fort William as seen from the International Space Station, December 2008 Thunder Bay is the brightly lit city along the top of Lake Superior, taken at 1:58 AM on 10 November 2017, during ISS Expedition 53.
Kaministiquia (/ ˌ k æ m ə ˈ n ɪ s t ɪ k w ɑː /) [1] is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Thunder Bay District on Highway 102 approximately 30 kilometres west of Thunder Bay.
A 1777 map depicting Lake Champlain and the upper Hudson River. In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the French decided to construct a fort here. Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon. [9]