History
Fort Témiscamingue stands on the east shore of Lake Timiskaming at a strategic narrows along a major inland route linking Hudson Bay and the St. Lawrence. An earlier west-shore fort founded around 1679 was destroyed in 1688, and the later post was established in 1720 at Obadjiwan Point, a former Algonquin encampment. The site passed from French merchants to independent traders, the North West Company, and then the Hudson’s Bay Company, before transportation changes and regional development shifted it from a fur-trade post into a general store. A Roman Catholic mission also operated there. The fort closed in 1902, but the site remains important for both fur-trade and Indigenous history.
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