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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.
Fort William Historical Park (formerly known as Old Fort William) is a Canadian historical site located in Thunder Bay, Ontario, that contains a reconstruction of the Fort William fur trade post as it existed in 1815. It officially opened on July 3, 1973. The site is located on the banks of the Kaministiquia River at Point de Meuron.
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 designated place served by a local services board, Kaministiquia had a population of 587 in the Canada 2006 Census.
French authorities closed this post in 1696 because of a glut on the fur market. In 1717, a new post, Fort Kaministiquia, was established at the river mouth by Zacharie Robutel de la Noue. This post appears on 18th century French maps by Royal hydrographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as "Fort Caministogoyan". The post was abandoned in 1758 or 1760 ...
The Kaministiquia River (/ ˌ k æ m ɪ ˈ n ɪ s t ɪ k w ɑː /) is a river which flows into western Lake Superior at the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Kaministiquia ( Gaa-ministigweyaa ) is an Ojibwe word meaning "where a stream flows in island" due to two large islands (McKellar and Mission) at the mouth of the river.
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The first French fort built west of Fort Kaministiquia by Pierre La Vérendrye in Northwestern Ontario: Fort Wellington [70] 1813 (established) 1920 Prescott: One of the best preserved nineteenth-century fortifications in Canada, the fort protected shipping along the St. Lawrence River during War of 1812: Fort William [71] 1803 (established)
By 1729, it was an outpost of Fort Kaministiquia under command of Vérendrye's Postes du Nord. When the British conquered Canada in 1763, this post was abandoned. [5] [7] Four years later, it was re-opened on the same site by fur traders Alexander Henry the elder and Jean Baptiste Cadotte.