Fort Albany (Ontario)

1744 Map of James Bay, including "Fort Saint-Anne", the French name for Fort Albany

Fort Albany was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post established in 1679 near the site of the present day Fort Albany First Nation. The fort was one of the oldest and most important of the Hudson's Bay Company's posts. It was also involved in Anglo-French tensions leading to the Battle of Fort Albany in 1688.


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