"FORT KAMINISTIQUIA 1717" - Thunder Bay ON
Posted by: PeterNoG
N 48° 22.936 W 089° 14.749
16U E 333718 N 5361225
This Ontario Provincial Plaque is one of two in front of Thunder Bay City Hall near Donald Street East and May Street South in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WMEWWC
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 07/15/2012
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The other plague, only a few feet away, is "WILLIAM MCGILLIVRAY 1764-1825" (
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~ the text from the plaque ~ Fort Kaministiquia 1717A small fort was established near here in 1717 by a French officer, Zacharie Robutel de la Nouë. First of a projected series of bases en route to the "Western Sea", it replaced a structure built in 1679 by Daniel Greysolon, Sieur Dulhut, on another branch of the Kaministiquia River delta. It served as a trading post and base of operations, 1727-43, for Pierre Gaultier de la Vérendrye, the famous explorer. Following the conquest of New France in 1760 this fort was abandoned. A later Fort Kaministiquia, built a short distance downriver by the North West Company, was renamed Fort William in 1807. It became the nucleus of this city.
'Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario'