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Whitefish Lake Post
Photo by contributor Mona Albano - Posted October, 2005
Photo from Google Street View ©2011 Google - Posted January, 2011
Plaque Location
The City of Greater Sudbury
In Naughton, on the south side of Road 55
between Reserve Road and Simon Lake Drive
5.4 km west of the intersection of Road 55 with Highway 17
Coordinates: N 46 24.252 W 81 10.926 |
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Plaque Text
The Hudson's Bay Company had established a fur trading post on the western shore of Whitefish Lake by 1824. It was hoped that a depot adjacent to the portage route to Wakami Lake would help prevent independent traders in Michigan, Wisconsin and southern Ontario from encroaching on trade north of the French River. In this, the post was reasonably successful. In 1887 the Company dismantled the building and moved it here to Naughton (Walden) so that it would be closer to the Canadian Pacific Railway line to Sault Ste. Marie. With the development of lumbering and mining in the region the fur trade declined in significance, and in 1896 the post was closed.
Another plaque at this location
Salter's Meridian 1856
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> Posted January 3, 2012
I grew up in Naughton and visited this site as a young boy. It always fascinated me having a trading post so near. I remember a family living in one of the buildings in the early 60's. I visited this site last year with my son in-law and wanted to show him the underground horse stable dug into the hill behind the signs. Unfortunately, time has taken its toll as it has collapsed and now only the entrance remains.
Daryl Park, Sudbury, Ontario
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