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There was a place ~ right there near Lac La Plonge where Portuguese fur traders met Iroquois fur traders from the early 1500s on ward for a couple of centuries.... the Iroquois kept a year round permanent party in the area to make sure it would be secure for visits by the Portuguese with their shipments of woven cloth, steel tools, firearms, medications, etc. Took the Iroquois fur parties 2 years to make a round trip from New York. Recently found they were the very last group to sign a peace treaty with Canada regarding land rights ~ they were in Alberta somewhere.
I believe they did this to avoid French pirates preying on fishermen and traders in the North.
In any case they had to get from the Churchill River mouth on Hudson Bay to La Plonge.... no idea if that was possible then... in large boats
Watching the video by President Daigneault as he discussed local sites and the frozen Beaver river, the location of the old school, and other things I realized he may know a lot more that would allow me, or some published historian, to link that area together with the discovery of Hudson Bay ~ maybe get the name changed eh?
I live in Springfield VA. Family arrived first at the Aragonese agricultural research station set up about 1575 ... but there were relatives on the boat with Columbus, and some in the ranks of the associates of Cortes and DeSoto and Pizzarro. My ambition is to relink America (meaning the USA) and Canada to their history in the 1500s ~ it's been too easily dismissed as just a bunch of fishermen and gold hunters....on the other hand, I think it was a foundational period that made all that followed possible.
An email from the President would be OK.