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Fort Frances - Northwestern Ontario
Rainy River District. Photo © Mark Visser

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Area Information
Fort Frances is a town in, and the seat of, Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario
Located on the international border with the United States where Rainy Lake narrows to become Rainy River, it is connected to International Falls, Minnesota by the Fort Frances - International Falls International Bridge. The town is the third-largest community of Northwestern Ontario after
Thunder Bay and Kenora.
In 1817, following the War of 1812 the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) built a fort here. In 1830 HBC Chief Factor John Dugald Cameron named the fur trading post after Frances Ramsay Simpson, the 18-year-old daughter of a London merchant
The town was Incorporated in 1903. Wikipedia


 
 
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