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Lake la Ronge was the site of some twenty trading posts dating from 1779. Nelson's Hudson's Bay Company post was a reestablishment in 1821 of an earlier North West Company post. According to

The Atlas of Saskatchewan

, it was the only fort on the Lake over the winter of 1822/1823. The location is likely a known archaeological site in the area shown on the map identified in the Atlas as Lac la Ronge II.

The road network reached La Ronge, founded in the early 1900's, in 1947, and Stanley Mission, which dates from 1851, in 1978.

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