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Pierre La Vérendrye established a secure French trading post, Fort St. Charles, to the south of present-day Kenora near the current Canada / U. S. border in 1732, and France maintained the post until 1763 when it lost the territory to the British in the Seven Years ' War — until then, it was the most northwesterly settlement of New France.

In 1836 the Hudson's Bay Company established a post on Old Fort Island, and in 1861, the Company opened a post on the mainland at Kenora's current location.