Rat Portage Post

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted July, 2006

Photo from Google Street View ©2011 Google - Posted March, 2011

Plaque Location

The District of Kenora
The City of Kenora
In the parking area on the north side of Highway 17
at the east end of the first bridge west of downtown

Coordinates: N 49 46.229 W 94 29.880

Plaque Text

On Old Fort Island .8 km north of here, the Hudson's Bay Company erected a stockaded fur trading post about 1836. This was the first known European structure within present Kenora. In 1861 the post was moved to the mainland, where it formed the nucleus of the community of Rat Portage. Situated on the main canoe route to the West, the post was visited by many persons prominent in Canada's history, including Sir George Simpson, Sir John Henry Lefroy, Paul Kane, Captain John Palliser, Simon James Dawson and Colonel Garnet Wolseley. The post which in its later years became a general store was closed in 1918.

Related Ontario plaques
The Wolseley Expedition 1870

Related Toronto plaques
Sir John Henry Lefroy 1817-1890
Paul Kane Park

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