Mattawa House 1837
Text from the plaque
Trading in furs at this junction of historic canoe routes probably began during the French regime. At intervals during the 1820's and 1830's Chief Trader John Siveright, commanding the Hudson's Bay Company's post at Fort Coulonge, sent men to trade at Mattawa. In 1837, primarily to counteract trading by lumbermen, the company established a permanent post there. Its original site was chosen by the company's governor, George Simpson, but before 1843 it was moved to this point. In later years, faced with diminishing fur trade, the post supplied its former rivals the lumbermen and turned to general trade in the community which grew around it. Mattawa House was closed in 1908.
Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.
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The District of Nipissing
The Town of Mattawa
On the north side of Main Street (Road 533)
just west of the Mattawa River bridge
N 46 19.162 W 78 42.551
Recorded May 2017. Check current access before visiting.
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