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Fort Albany (Ontario)
1679 Historical trading post near Fort Albany First Nation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the historical trading post on James Bay. For other similarly-named places, see Fort Albany.
Fort Albany was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post established in 1679 near the site of the present day Fort Albany First Nation. The fort was one of the oldest and most important of the Hudson's Bay Company's posts. It was also involved in Anglo-French tensions leading to the Battle of Fort Albany in 1688.
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