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Fort St. James is a town and former fur trading post in north-central British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the south-eastern shore of Stuart Lake in the
Bulkley-Nechako region, at the northern terminus of Highway 27. Founded by the North West Company explorer and fur trader Simon Fraser in 1806, it is one of British
Columbia's oldest permanent European settlements. The fort, rebuilt four times, continued as an important trading post right into the twentieth century. Now the fort
is a National Historic Site with some buildings dating to the 1880s. The community celebrated its bicentennial in 2006.
As part of his commission from the North West Company, Fraser and his assistants John Stuart and James McDougall explored potential river routes to the Pacific Ocean from
1805 through 1808. Explorations in the Winter of 1805-06 by McDougall resulted in the discovery of Carrier's Lake, now known as Stuart Lake. In the heart of territory inhabited
by the Carrier or Dakelh First Nation, this proved to be a lucrative locale for fur trading and so a post - Fort St. James - was built on its shore in 1806. In 1821, the fort
came under the control of the Hudson's Bay Company, when the North West Company merged with it. It subsequently became the administrative headquarters of the Company's vast New
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acreages and farms. The fur trade was slow to take route in the area, since the economy of the Dakelh people had been based on the fishery, rather than on trapping. In addition, there were customary
and ceremonial restrictions which placed obstacles in the way of an efficient fur economy. Nonetheless, eventually the post became profitable, and continued to function until its
closure in 1952.
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