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• Pic Fur Trading Post, The
  Alexander Shaw & Company of Montreal were trading on the Pic River as early as 1778, but the first post recorded in the vicinity was that which Gabriel Cotté established by 1792. Cotté was succeeded about 1795 by a trader names St. Germain, and the post was shortly thereafter taken over by the North West Company. The Pic was frequently a stopping place for canoe travellers making the circuit of Lake Superior, among them Alexander...