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In 1830, George Simpson, governor of the Hudson Bay Company arrived with his young bride Frances. So impressed by her visit, the men at the post renamed lac la Pluie or Rainy Lake Post, Fort Frances in her honour.

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Natives gathering wild rice on Rainy Lake
1 January 1800
Rainy Lake

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Barwick, 1899. Dominion Officials meet with Natives at the Manitiou Reserve on the Rainy River.
1 January 1899
Barwick

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With most of eastern Ontario and Canada settled, the government sought to open up the west. This necessitated the negotiation of a Treaty with the First Nation people. Treaty Three ceded the lands between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods to the Dominion.

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Treaty Three was signed on October 3rd, 1873 and ceded land from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods.
1 January 1873

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Ojibway Indian Reserve
1900
Rainy Lake, Fort Frances

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Couchiching First Nation was established on the shores of Rainy Lake, and a reserve for the Indian agent was established at what is now Pither's Point Park.

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Treaties and Settlement Grants make way for Community Development.