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Moose Factory Ontario history museum and Northern store

27July 2023,, Thanks Tim Roach for being a great host and showing me around Moose Factory. Island life in northern Ontario just a stones throw away from James Bay gateway to the Arctic. Northern Store is located in the Moose Cree Complex and is a major employer for the community with around 45 people employed. The moose Cree First Nations and the Weeneebayko hospital are 2 other major employers in town. Established as Moose Fort in 1673, on a much older Cree gathering site, Moose Factory is Canada's oldest continuous hub of Indigenous-European relations and a national historic site. The second Hudson's Bay Company post to be set up in North America after Fort Rupert. The term "Factory" refers to the jurisdiction of a factor (a business agent or merchant in charge of buying or selling) of the Hudson's Bay Company. Est 1673 Hudson’s bay company but 13 years later The French captured Moose Fort and renamed it to Fort St. Louis. Ten years later in 1696, the English recaptured it and burned it to the ground. but it was not reoccupied for almost two decades. The Hudson's Bay Company set up a new fort in 1730, one mile upstream from the old site, to accommodate Cree traders for whom travel to the other James Bay posts was too dangerous. Five years later, this one also was destroyed by a fire that started in the kitchen, but was rebuilt over a period of seven years. By the early 1800s, the settlement was the "headquarters for the HBC’s Southern Department". Thereafter it came to be known as Moose Factory. It became HBC's main base on James Bay In 1905, the Cree signed a treaty (Treaty 9) with the government that established the Factory Island Indian Reserve. In 1931, the community was finally connected by the Northern Ontario Railway by way of neighbouring Moosonee station. The HBC continued to operate in Moose Factory until 1987, when its operations in northern Canada, including Moose Factory, were sold to The North West Company. Today, the North West Company operates a grocery and general goods store at the Moose Cree Complex selling "food, as well as general merchandise such as clothing, electronics and housewares" near some of the historic HBC buildings. The Moose Factory Hudson's Bay Company staff house was originally the officers' dwelling for HBC doctors, captains, clerks, and secretaries; it is now used as a museum and tourism office. The staff house was built between 1847 and 1850, making it the oldest building in the James Bay area and the last surviving HBC officers' dwelling. Like several other buildings in this National Historic site, the Staff House is a historic listed building, recognized by the Ontario Heritage Trust.