Flying Post

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Flying Post was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post[1] located on the Kukatush (variously spelled Kuckatoosh or Ahkuckootish) or Groundhog River, a tributary of the Mattagami River. The post was approximately eighty miles downriver from Kukatush or Groundhog Lake, and one hundred miles upriver from the river's junction with the Mattagami. It was approximately fifty miles northwest of Matawagamingue.[2] The post was built by fur trader Donald McKay in 1800.[3]Template:Rp

First Nation

Flying Post First Nation has a registered population of 250, all living off reserve. The current chief is Ray Murray.[4] The band office is located in Nipigon, Ontario but the reserve is on the kukutush river between Foleyet and Timmins with many members still living in the area. [5] The band has a Script error: No such module "convert". reserve (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".), Flying Post No. 73, located Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario.[6][7] The band is a signatory of Treaty 9 (July 16, 1906).[8]

References

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  1. Flying Post (Ontario) Hudson's Bay Company Archives
  2. Report of E.B. Borron, Stipendiary Magistrate, on Part of the Basin of Hudson's Bay Belonging to the Province of Ontario. Borron, E. B. (Edward Barnes). Printed by C.B. Robinson, by order of the Legislative Assembly, 1883
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  4. Wabun First Nation Profiles Template:Webarchive, Wabun Tribal Council
  5. First Nation Detail - Flying Post Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
  6. First Nation Connectivity Profile - Flying Post Template:Webarchive Aboriginal Canada Profile
  7. Template:Cite cgndb
  8. Our History Template:Webarchive, Flying Post First Nation (flyingpost.ca)

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