Kakachischuan Point

Kakachischuan Point is a named headland on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, north of the mouth of La Grande River. Quebec's inventory of Cree place names gives its position as 54°02′ north, 79°05′ west and translates the name as “the raven point.” The name anchors this stretch of coast in a Cree geographical vocabulary, rather than identifying a colonial fort or town.

The nearby La Grande estuary provides a documented regional setting for the years before 1837. Crees gathered in summer on the island later called Fort George long before it became a permanent trading settlement. In 1803 the Hudson's Bay Company established a post there, reinforcing the island's role as a lasting community centre. This development belonged to an older inhabited coastal landscape. Fort George's trading history concerns the neighbouring estuary; it does not establish that a company post existed at Kakachischuan Point itself.