Old Chicoutimi Trading Post National Historic Site of Canada

Chicoutimi, Quebec
General view of remains associated with the Old Chicoutimi Trading Post © Pierre Tremblay, 2013. (Avec permission | With autorization)
General view
© Pierre Tremblay, 2013. (Avec permission | With autorization)
General view of remains associated with the Old Chicoutimi Trading Post © Pierre Tremblay, 2013. (Avec permission | With autorization)General view of remains associated with the Old Chicoutimi Trading Post © Pierre Tremblay, 2013. (Avec permission | With autorization)General view of remains associated with the Old Chicoutimi Trading Post © Pierre Tremblay, 2013. (Avec permission | With autorization)
Address : Corner of Price and Sauenay and Chicoutimi River, Chicoutimi, Quebec

Recognition Statute: Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date: 1972-05-29

Other Name(s):
  • Old Chicoutimi Trading Post  (Designation Name)
  • THE CHICOUTIMI TRADING POST  (Plaque name)
Research Report Number: 1972-001, 2010-CED-SDC-008

Plaque(s)


Existing plaque:  angle of Price and Sauenay and Chicoutimi River, Chicoutimi, Quebec

A fur trade post was built here in 1676 by a firm owned by Jean Oudiette and Charles Bazire. At the head of navigation of the Saguenay River, it soon became the principal post of the region and the major centre of the interior trade. As with the other depots of the King's Posts, it was controlled by a succession of fermiers and companies wich included François-Étienne Cugnet, the North West Company and, lastly, the Hudson's Bay Company. The advent of agricultural settlement and lumbering in the district in the 1840s caused a rapid decline in the fur trade and the abandonment of this post in 1876.