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A chain of rivers, lakes, and portages linking the St. Lawrence system with the waterways of the prairies had been known to Indigenous people for centuries when Jacques de Noyon first traveled it in 1688. After 1800, when boundary settlement placed the more southerly Grand Portage in the United States, the North West Company reopened the Kaministikwia route, which for almost 25 years was the main highway to the west. From Fort William at the mouth of the river, canoes were tracked upriver to this point, the first major obstacle on the route.
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