MOOSE FACTORY - 1670 TO 2011

Taken by Andrew Evans, Digital Nomad for (c) National Geographic 2011

This image is Moose River close by Moose Factory, shot on July 14, 2011. The view looks exactly as it did to the Europeans in the Hudson's Bay Company who built a fur trading post there in 1670 and to James Douglas, governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island, who saw it in mid-1800s

The fort was situated on Moose Island in the Cochrane district of northern Ontario at the southern end of Hudson Bay beside James Bay. Moose Factory was the first English speaking settlement in Ontario and only the second HBC fort in North America. Nearly 1500 Moose Cree First Nation people live there today.

Many thanks to Andrew Evans and the National Geographic Traveler!