 The tradition of trading seems to have continued across the centuries because when Carl von Linné and his apprentice Lars Montin visited the Kalix marketplace in 1732 and 1749 he complained about the haggling with the Kalix' traders which allowed the people of Kalix a good price on butter and tar but drove up the inflation in Stockholm.Kalix as a socken (Nordic name for local geographic area with its own administration) was first mentioned in 1482.Before this point the area had been referred to with many different names