Kamsack

Kamsack lies at the meeting of the Whitesand and Assiniboine rivers in eastern Saskatchewan. The wooded river valley crosses the parkland between the northern forest and the open prairie. Indigenous communities used the Assiniboine as a route through this country, and the river later attracted fur traders. In 1774 Sturgeon Cree guides urged the Hudson’s Bay Company to establish an inland post on the upper Assiniboine, though the company chose another site.