Cumberland House National Historic Site of Canada is located on Pine Island in the Saskatchewan River in the district of Cumberland Lake, Saskatchewan. Cumberland House was the Hudson’s Bay Company first inland fur-trading post, around which Saskatchewan’s oldest permanent settlement was founded in 1774 by Samuel Hearne, explorer and fur-trader. This community’s only visible remnant today is a thick, stone-walled 1890s powder house, once used for storing gunpowder. Also preserved at the site are parts of the Northcote, a fur trade steamboat used at Batoche during the North-West Resistance. Adjacent to Cumberland House is the Cumberland House Cree Nation Reserve, part of the original Cumberland House settlement. Official recognition refers to the single, polygonal parcel of land that encompasses the boundary of the Hudson’s Bay Company Property at the time of designation.
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Photo: Map illustrating Lord Selkirks 116,000 Square Miles land grant, area which was known as Assiniboia. This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.