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Egenolf Lake is a lake in northern Manitoba, about 75 kilometres south of the provincial boundary with Nunavut, Canada. Pike have been caught at Egenolf Lake measuring well over 50 inches. Egenolf Lake is the home base of Gangler's North Seal River Lodge and Outposts, a popular sportfishing and hunting operation. [1]
This is a list of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts. [1]For the fur trade in general see North American fur trade and Canadian canoe routes (early).For some groups of related posts see Fort-Rupert for James Bay.
In 1957, Hudson's Bay York Factory closed. The residents were relocated to York Landing Cree Nation, [7] about 116 kilometres (72 miles) ENE of Thompson, Manitoba, as well as Split Lake and Shamattawa. In oral stories, Cree elders who once resided at York Factory in the first half of the twentieth century recalled their desires to remain at ...
In 1816, Thomas Douglas sent Norwegians to build a road linking York Factory and Lake Winnipeg.In 1817, Norway House was built at Mossy Point, Manitoba. In 1821, Norway House became the principal inland fur trading depot for the Hudson's Bay Company From then it became a convenient meeting place for the Council of the Northern Department of Rupert's Land.
The Swampy Cree (Maškēkowak / nēhinawak) peoples of York Factory, Manitoba, were relocated to York Landing after the Hudson's Bay Company's York Factory location closed in 1957. [5] In 1986, the Government of Canada transferred 9.674 km 2 (2,390.5 acres) of reserve lands at York Landing to the First Nation. [3]
Before the province of Manitoba was created in 1870, Assiniboia—named after the river that runs by it, itself named for the Assiniboine First Nation—was governed by the Council of Assiniboia (1835–1870). [12] In 1853, the Church of England was given a grant of land from the Hudson's Bay Company from which they formed the Parish of St ...
Manigotagan is a settlement in the Canadian province of Manitoba. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located near the mouth of the Manigotagan River at Lake Winnipeg . History
Oxford House was established in 1798 as a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post on the fur trade route between York Factory on the Hudson Bay and Norway House some 30 km (19 mi) north of Lake Winnipeg.