Everything about Fort Kaministiquia totally explained
Daniel Greysolon Dulhut had built a fort, (Fort Caministigoyan), at the
Kaministiquia River in 1679. In 1717
Fort Kaministiquia was founded by French merchants to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade. It would also begin an organized search for a water route which they hoped would lead them to the western sea. The expansion didn't proceed further until
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye became commandant in 1728. He began to make plans to expand westward and began his explorations in 1731. This led to a fort at
Grand Portage and
Fort St. Pierre in that year. In 1732 the next important link in the movement west was built on
Lake of the Woods. It was called
Fort St. Charles.
Fort Kaministiquia continued to be the first link with the expansion forts. The British constructed a new fort,
Fort William, at this location in 1803. The city of
Thunder Bay now occupies the area where Fort Kaministiquia provided the base for so much western history.
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