grew on the United States side. The last major use of the route was by the Wolseley Expedition in 1870. After 1885 the Canadian Pacific Railway connected eastern and western Canada with a route north of Lake Superior. Trading posts on the route were: Lake Superior: 1.Fort Kaministiquia (1717), later called Fort William, Ontario (NWC, 1803) and 2. Grand Portage with Fort Charlotte; Rainy River: Fort Saint Pierre (1731), Fort Lac la Pluie (NWC, circa 1780), Asp House (HBC 1794), Hungry Hall (HBC 1825); Lake of the Woods: Fort Saint Charles (1732); Winnipeg River Mouth:Fort Maurepas (Canada) (c 1739), Fort Bas de la Rivière (NWC, 1792), Fort Alexander (HBC, before 1800) See also La Vérendrye Trail List of longest rivers of Canada List of rivers of Ontario List of rivers of Manitoba References Further reading Luby, Brittany. Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory. University of Manitoba Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-88755-874-0 Morton, Arthur Silver. A History of the Canadian West to 1870-71: Being a History of Rupert's Land (the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory) and of the North-West Territory (including the Pacific Slope). Edited by Lewis Gwynne Thomas. University of Toronto Press, in co-operation with the University of Saskatchewan, 1973. ISBN 9780802040336 External links Rivers of Manitoba Rivers of Kenora District Tributaries of Hudson Bay Bodies of water of Eastman Region, Manitoba