On Agamiing Drive (Trans Canada Highway) (Provincial Highway 11) at Third Street East, on the right when traveling north on Agamiing Drive (Trans Canada Highway).
John Robert Nicholson Pither Born in Montreal, J. R. N. Pither came to the country in a birch bark canoe joining the Hudson's Bay Company in 1846. While in charge of Fort Frances between 1853 and 1864, he lived on a point of land where the . . . — — Map (db m309994) HM
Near Trans-Canada Highway (Noden Causeway) (Provincial Highway 11) 4.6 kilometers east of Frog Creek Road (Couchiching Road), on the left when traveling east.
[English] Jacques de Noyon was the first white man to explore this region. Born in Trois-Rivieres. Noyon worked in the fur trade as a coureur de bois. In 1688 he led an expedition beyond Lake Superior into territory . . . — — Map (db m261686) HM
On Lake Road at Idylwild, on the right when traveling north on Lake Road.
Born in Montreal, Pither joined the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1846. While in charge at Ft. Frances, 1853-56 and 1858-64, he lived in this vicinity (now Pither’s Point). On his retirement from the company in 1869, he served as Indian Agent at Fort . . . — — Map (db m203422) HM
On Lake Road at Idylwild, on the right when traveling north on Lake Road.
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Vérendrye, was born at Trois Rivières and saw military service in North America and Europe before entering the fur trade. While stationed at Lake Nipigon in 1727 he heard stories of the “Western Sea” which . . . — — Map (db m203413) HM
On Idylwild Drive (Calder Drive) just south of Lake Road.
[English] The first post on Rainy Lake was Fort Tekamanigan, built by Robutel de La Noue in 1717, but soon abandoned, probably because of the Sioux hostility. In 1731 the Sieur de la Jemeraye, La Vérendrye's nephew . . . — — Map (db m261700) HM
