Fort Kaministiquia was founded by French merchants to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade and seek a route to the western sea. (
Daniel Greysolon Dulhut had built a fort, (Fort Caministigoyan), at the same location on the
Kaministiquia River in 1679.)
Fort Prince of Wales founded by the Hudson's Bay Company, (rebuilt later in stone in 1731.)