List of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts explained

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. Ottawa River, Winnipeg River, Assiniboine River fur trade, and Saskatchewan River fur trade.

A

• Lake Abitibi
• Acacoutishendaw (see Flying Post)
• Aillik
• Aklavik
• Fort Albany
• Albany House
• Fort Alexander (see also Sagkeeng First Nation)
• Fort Alexandria
• Allanwater
• Amadjuak
• Fort Anderson (see Anderson River (Northwest Territories))^[2]
• Apsley House (see Cross Lake)
• Arctic Bay
• Artiwinipigon (see Eastmain)
  • Ash Falls Ashuapmuchuan
• Asp House
• Fort Assiniboine
• Lake Assiniboine
• Lake Athabaska
• Athabasca Landing
• Attawapiskat
• Lake Attawapiskat

B

• Babine
  • Bad Lake Bad Throat Post
• Badger River (see Winisk River)
• Baie-Comeau
• Bernard Harbour
• Baie des Pères (Ville-Marie)
• Baillie Islands
• Baker Lake
• Barkerville
• Bas de la Rivière (see also Fort Alexander)
• Batchewana
• Bathurst Inlet
• Battle River
• Battleford
• Bayley's Island (see Albany)
• Bear Lake (Fort Connelly)
• Bearskin Lake
• Beauval
• Beaver Creek (see Fort Ellice)
• Beaver Lake House (see Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation)
  • Beaver Lake Portage Beaver Lodge (see Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation)
• Bedford House (Egg Lake) (see Egg Lake (Churchill River))
• Bedford House (Reindeer Lake)
• Bella Bella (see Fort McLoughlin)
• Belcher Islands
• Bellevue Sheep Farm (see San Juan Island)
• Berens River
• Bersimis
• Big Beaver House (see Pipestone River (Kenora District))
• Big Fall (see Little Grand Rapids)
• Big Lake
• Big Point (see Whitemud River)
• Big River (see Chisasibi)
• Bigstone River
• Biscotasing
• Black River
• Blacklead Island
• Blanc-Sablon
  • Blood River Bolsover House
  • Bow Fort Bow River (see Chesterfield House)
• Fort Brabant
• Brandon House
• Brunswick House (see Missinaibi River)
• Bucke
• Buckingham
• Buckingham House
• Buffalo River
• Lake Burdingno (see Escabitchewan)
• Lake Burntwood (see Wepiskow Lake)
• Port Burwell

C

• Calgary
• Cambridge Bay
• Candle Lake
• Canoe Lake
• Cape Dorset
• Cape Smith
• Cappoonicagomie (see Kabinakagami Lake)
  • Caribou Carlton House (Assiniboine)
• Carlton House (Saskatchewan)
• Carlton House (Three Points)
• Cartwright
• Cat Lake
  • Cavell Cawassieamica
• Cedar Lake
• Chapleau
• Charles Fort (Mackenzie River) (see Fort Good Hope)
• Charlton Island Depot
• Chatham House
• Chats
• Cheasquachiston (Windsor House - NOT Windsor QC)
• Chesterfield House
• Chesterfield Inlet
• Chibougamau
• Chickney
• Chicoutimi
• Fort Chilcotin
• Fort Chimo
• Fort Chipewyan
• Chipewyan Lake
• Chiswick House
• Fort Churchill
• Clapham House (see Reindeer Lake)
• Clear Lake (see Birch Narrows First Nation)
• Clyde River
• Coats Island
• Cold Lake
• Cold Lake (English River)
• Colens Cot (see Norway House)
• Fort Collinson
• Colvile House
• Colvile Landing
• Fort Colvile
• Fort Concord (see Winisk River)
• Fort Connelly, Fort Connolly, or Connolly's Lake (see Bear Lake (Fort Connelly))
• Coocoocache
• Fort à la Corne
• Fort-Coulonge
• Fort Cowlitz (Cowlitz Farm)
• Cree Lake
• Cross Lake
• Cross Portage (see Sipiwesk Lake)
  • Cul-de-Sac Cumberland House

D

• Dalles
• Fort Dauphin
• Davis Inlet
• Dease Lake
• Deer Lake
• Deloraine
• Desert
• Diana Bay
• Dinorwic
  • Dog Head Doubtful Post
• Duck Lake
• Duck Lake (Saskatchewan)
  • Duck Portage Dundas Harbour
• Dunvegan

E

• Eagle Lake
  • Eagle Lake (Albany River District) Eagle Nest (see Eagle Lake (Ontario))
• Eastmain
• Edmonton (see Fort Edmonton)
• Egg Lake (Churchill River)
• Egg Lake (Swan Lake)
• Fort Ellice
• Ernest House (see Martin Fall and English River)
  • Escabitchewan Eskimo Point
• Fort Espérance
• Esquimalt
• Esquimaux Bay (see North West River)
• Essex House
• Eyelick (see Aillik)

F

• Factory River
• Fairford
• Fairford House
• Finlay River
• Fisher River
• Fishing Island (see Carlton House (Assiniboine))
• Flamborough House
• Flathead
• Fly Lake
• Flying Post
• Fond-du-Lac
• Fort Frances (see Lac la Pluie)
• Frances Lake
• Fraser Lake
• Frederick House
• Frenchman's Island
• Frobisher Bay (Apex)

G

• Lower Fort Garry
• Upper Fort Garry (see Winnipeg)
• Fort George (Big River)
• Fort George (Columbia River)
• Fort George (New Caledonia)
• George River
• Ghost River
• Gillam
• Gisipigimack
• Glenora
• Gloucester House
• Godbout
• God's Lake
• Gogama
• Fort Good Hope
• Gordon House
• Grady Harbour
• Grand Forks
• Grand-Lac
• Grand Rapid (see Little Grand Rapids)
• Grand Rapids
• Grande Prairie
• Granville House
• Grassy Narrows (MB)
• Grassy Narrows (ON)
• Great Fall (see Little Grand Rapids)
• Great Slave Lake (see Fort Resolution)
• Great Whale River (Kuujjuarapik/Whapmagoostui)
• Green Lake House
• Green Lake (Lake Huron)
• Greenwich House (see Lac La Biche)

H

• Fort Halkett
• Hawaii (see Sandwich Islands)
• Hay River
• Hazelton
• Fort Hall
• Fort Hearne
• Fort Hebron
• Henley House
• Herschel Island
• Honolulu (see Sandwich Islands)
• Fort Hope (Albany)
• Fort Hope (Victoria)
• Hopedale
• Hudson
• Hudson Hope
• Hudson House (Upper & Lower)
• Hulse House
• Hungry Hall

I

• Igloolik
• Île-à-la-Crosse
• Île-Jérémie (Jeremie's Post)
• Indian Elbow (see Fort Pelly)
• Indian Lake
• Island Falls
• Island Falls (Superior/Huron)
• Island House
• Island Lake

J

• Jack River (see Norway House)
• Fort James (see Fort Severn First Nation)
• Jasper House

K

• Kagainagami
• Kaipokok
• Kakabonga (see Rapid Lake, Quebec)
• Kamloops
• Kanaaupscow
• Kaniapiskau
• Kapisko
• Kapusko (see Chickney)
• Keewatin
• Kenogamissi
• Kenora (see Rat Portage)
• Kent Peninsula
• Kibokok (see Kaipokok Bay)
• Kickendatch
• Kittegazuit
• Fort Kilmaurs (see Babine)
• King William Island (Gjoa Haven)
• Knee Lake
• Kuckatush (see Flying Post)
• Kugaryuak

L

• La Cloche
• La Loutre
• La Pierre's House
• La Sarre
• Lac des Allumettes
• Lac des Deux-Montagnes (see Lake of Two Mountains)
• Lac du Bonnet
• Lac du Brochet
• Lac La Biche
• Lac la Pluie
• Lac La Ronge
• Lac Ste. Anne
• Lac Seul
• Lac Travers
• Lachine
• Lake Assiniboine
• Lake Athabasca
• Lake Attawapiskat
• Lake Harbour
• Lake Nipigon (see also Gull Bay First Nation)
• Lake Nipissing
• Lake of Two Mountains
• Lake St. John
• Last Mountain House
• Fort Lampson
• Fort Langley
• Lansdowne House
• Leaf River (Tasiujaq)
• Lesser Slave Lake
• Lethbridge
• Letty Harbour (Paulatuk)
• Liard
• Fort Liard
• Lindsay
• Little Bear Lake
• Little Grand Rapids
• Little Whale River
• Long Lake
• Long Portage
• Loon River
• Lower Fort Garry
• Fort Macleod

M

• Mainwaring River (see Winnipeg Lake)
• Makkovik
• Mamattawa (see Cappoonicagomie)
• Manchester House
• Manitoba House (Doubtful Post)
• Manitoba Lake House (see Whitemud River)
• Manitou
• Mansel Island
• Manuan (Manowan)
• Marlboro House
• Martin Fall
• Massett
• Matachewan
• Matawagamingue
• Mattagami (see Matawagamingue and Michipicoten)
• Mattawa
• Mattice
• McDame Creek
• Fort McKay
• Fort McKenzie
• McLeod Lake
• Fort McLoughlin
• Fort McMurray
• Merry's House
• Mesackamy Lake
• Mesaugamee Lake
• Metabetchuoan (Lac Saint-Jean)
• Point Meuron (see Fort William (Lake Superior))
• Micabanish (see Missinaibi River)
• Michikamau House
• Michipicoten
• Migiskan
• Miminiska Lake
• Minaki
• Mingan
• Mingan Fur Farm
• Missanabie
• Missinaibi
• Mississagi
• Mistassini
• Mittimatalik (see Pond Inlet)
• Montizambert
• Montreal
• Montreal Lake
• Moose Factory
• Moose Lake
• Moosonee
• Morden
• Muskwaro
• Mutton Bay

N

• Nabisipi
• Nachvak
• Nain
• Fort Nascopie
• Natashkwan
• Nelson House
• Fort Nelson
• Nemiskau
• Neoskweskau
• Nescutia
  • New Brunswick House New Post
• Fort Nez Percés
• Nichikun
• Nipawin
• Nipigon
• Nipigon House
• Lake Nipigon (see also Gull Bay First Nation)
• Lake Nipissing (at Sturgeon Falls) (see Sturgeon River House Museum
• Nisqually
• Nonala
• Fort Norman
• North West River
• Norway House
• Nottingham House (see Fort Chipewyan)
• Nueltin House
• Nutak

O

• Oak Point
• Obijuan
• Ogoki
• Okak
• Onion Lake
• Orillia
• Oskelaneo
• Osnaburgh House
• Oxford House

P

• Padlei (Padley)
• Pagwa River
• Paint Creek House
• Pangnirtung
• Pangnirtung Fox Farm
• Pas Mountain
• Pas Post
• Payne Bay
• Peace River Crossing
• Peel River
• Pekangekum
• Pelican Lake
• Fort Pelly
• Pembina
• Peribonka
• Perry River
• Petaigan River
• Peterbell
• Pic River
• Piegan Post (see Bow Fort)
• Pike Lake
• Pike Lake (Churchill River) (see Portland House)
• Pincher Creek
• Pine Creek
• Pine Lake
• Pine Portage
• Pine Ridge
• Pine River (see Dipper Lake at English River First Nation)
• Fort Pitt
• Point Meuron (see Fort William (Lake Superior))
• Pointe au Foutre (see Fort Alexander)
• Pointe-Bleue
• Pond Inlet
• Poplar Point
• Poplar River
• Port Burwell
• Port Harrison
• Port Harrison Fox Farm
• Portage de l'Île
• Portage La Loche
• Portage la Prairie
• Portland House
• Povungnituk Bay
• Prince Albert
• Fort Prince of Wales (see Fort Churchill)
• Fort Providence
• Pukatawagan

Q

• Qu'Appelle (Assiniboine River) (see Fort Ellice)
• Fort Qu'Appelle
• Quebec
• Quesnel

R

• Fort Rae
• Rampart House
• Rapid River
• Rat Portage
• Read Island
• Red Deer River
• Red Lake
• Red River (Athabasca District)
  • Red Rock Reed Lake
• Reindeer Lake
• Fort Reliance
• Repulse Bay
• Fort Resolution
• Fort Richmond
• Riding Mountain
• Rigolet
• Rock Depot
• Rocky Mountain House
• La Romaine
• Fort Ross
• Rossville
• Fort Rupert
• Rupert House
• Rush Lake

S

• St. Anthony Mines (see Bucke)
• St. Augustine
• Fort St. James
• St. John's Agency
• Fort St. John
• Fort St. Mary
• Saguingue (Saugeen)
• San Francisco
• San Juan Island (Belle Vue Sheep Farm)
• Sandwich Islands
• Sandy Lake
• Sandy Lake (Albany River)
• Sandy Narrows
• Fort Sanspareil (See Edmonton)
• Sault Ste. Marie
• Savanne
• Fort Seaborn
• Fort Selkirk
• Senneterre
• Setting River
• Seven Islands (Sept-Îles)
• Severn
• Shell River (Swan River)
• Shell River (English River)
• Shingle Point
• Shoal Lake
• Shoal River
• Fort Simpson (Mackenzie River)
• Fort Simpson, (Nass) (Lax Kw'alaams)
• Sioux Lookout
• Fort Smith
• Snake Country
• Somerset House (Assiniboine River)
• Somerset House (Turtle Creek)
• Souris River (see Pinehouse, Saskatchewan)
• South Branch House
• South Indian Lake (See Indian Lake)
• South Reindeer Lake
• South River House
• Southampton Island
• Spirit River Ranch
• Split Lake House
• Spokane (Spokane House)
• Stikine
• Stoney Creek (Cumberland)
• Stony Creek
• Stuart Lake (See Fort St. James)
• Stupart's Bay
• Sturgeon Creek
• Sturgeon Lake (Albany River)
• Sturgeon Lake (Peace River)
• Sturgeon River
• Sudbury
• Sugluk East
• Sugluk West
• Swampy Lake
• Swan River House

T

• Tadoussac
• Tavane
• Telegraph Creek (See Glenora)
• Temagami
• Temiskamay
• Teslin Post
• The Pas (See Pas Post)
• Thompson River (See Kamloops)
• Three Rivers
• Thunder Lake
• Timiskaming (Fort Témiscamingue)
• Touchwood Hills Post
• Tree River
• Fort Trial (George River)
• Fort Trial (Labrador Coast)
• Trois-Rivières (See Three Rivers)
• Trout Lake (see Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation)
• Trout Lake (Peace River)
• Trout Lake (Timiskaming)
• Turtle Lake

U

• U-Y Outpost

V

• Vancouver
• Fort Vancouver
• Fort Vermilion (Peace River)
• Fort Vermilion (Saskatchewan River)
• Victoria (Alberta)
• Fort Victoria (British Columbia)

W

• Wabowden
• Wager Inlet
• Waswanipi
• Walla Walla (See Fort Nez Percés)
• Waterhen River
• Waterloo, Fort (See Lesser Slave Lake)
• Wedderburn, Fort (See Fort Chipewyan)
• Weenusk
• Wegg's House
• Wepiskow Lake
• West Lynne
• Weymontachingue
• Whale River
• White Dog Post
• White River
• Whitefish Lake (Lake Huron)
• Whitefish Lake (Peace River)
• Whitewood
• Fort William (Lake Superior)
• Fort William (Ottawa River)
• Fort William (Red River)
• Windsor House
• Winisk River
• Winnipeg
• Winnipeg Lake
• Winnipegosis
• Winokapau
• Wire Lake
• Wolstenholme
• Wrangell
• Fort Wrigley

Y

• Yale
• York Factory
• Fort Yukon
• Yerba Buena, California

See also

• Former colonies and territories in Canada
  • List of French forts in North America List of North American cities by year of foundation

Further reading

• Book: Elle Andra-Warner. Hudson's Bay Company Adventures: Tales of Canada's Fur Traders. 2011. Heritage House. 978-1-926613-14-7.

External links

• Company post map - Hudson's Bay Company Archives

Notes and References

1. https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/resource/post_rec/alpha.html HBCA Post Records by Name
2. Web site: Anderson River . The Canadian Encyclopedia . 2008-01-24.