Lachine Fur Trade Museum
The The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site ( French Lieu historique du commerce de la Fourrure-à-Lachine national , English The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site ) is a museum in Lachine , a borough of Montreal . It is located at the west end of the Lachine Canal in an early 19th-century building that is a National Historic Site .
From the 17th century onwards, the voyageurs traveled west in their canoes to trade furs (especially beaver pelts ) with the indigenous people . The Lachine rapids made it impossible for larger ships to follow the St. Lawrence River , so the goods had to be reloaded here. In order to be able to temporarily store furs, Alexander Gordon, a partner in the North West Company , had a stone building built in 1803. This warehouse was owned by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1833 .
In 1977 the Parks Canada authority acquired the building and had it restored. In 1985 a museum was opened there, dealing with the fur trade in North America .
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Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 53 " N , 73 ° 40 ′ 32.2" W.