Flying Post was a

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business div ...

trading post A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded. Typically the location of the trading post would allow people from one geographic area to tr ...

located on the ''Kukatush'' (variously spelled ''Kuckatoosh'' or ''Ahkuckootish'') or

Groundhog River The Groundhog River is a river in Cochrane District and Sudbury District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Shows the course of the river highlighted on a map. The river is in the James Bay drainage basin and is a left tributary of the Mattagami Ri ...

, a tributary of the

Mattagami River The Mattagami River is a river in Northern Ontario, Canada. The Mattagami flows from its source at Mattagami Lake in geographic Gouin Township in the Unorganized North Part of Sudbury District, on the Canadian Shield southwest of Timmins, Lengt ...

. 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. The post was built by Donald McKay in 1800.

First Nation

Flying Post First Nation Flying Post First Nation is an Ojibway and Cree First Nation band government in Nipigon, Ontario. It has a reserve called Flying Post 73. History Reserves were first established between the government and First Nations in Northern Ontario thro ...

has a registered population of 250, all living off reserve. The current chief is Ray Murray. The band office is located in

Nipigon, Ontario Nipigon () is a township in Thunder Bay District, Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located along the west side of the Nipigon River and south of the small Lake Helen running between Lake Nipigon and Lake Superior. Lake Nipigon is located approximate ...

but the reserve is on the kukutush river between Foleyet and Timmins with many members still living in the area. The band has a reserve (), Flying Post No. 73, located southwest of

Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario Smooth Rock Falls is an incorporated town in the Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, with a population of 1,330 at the 2016 census. Geography and transportation The town lies on the Mattagami River and on Highway 11. The next ful ...

. The band is a signatory of

Treaty 9 ''Treaty No. 9'' (also known as ''The James Bay Treaty'') is a numbered treaty first signed in 1905-1906 between Anishinaabe (Algonquin and Ojibway) and Omushkegowuk Cree communities and the Canadian Crown, which includes both the governme ...

(July 16, 1906).Our History
Flying Post First Nation (flyingpost.ca)

References

{{reflist Hudson's Bay Company trading posts Indian reserves in Ontario