Oxford Lake

Oxford Lake lies along the Hayes River route through the forests of northern Manitoba. Its shores are home to the Bunibonibee Cree, and its waters form part of a long passage between Lake Winnipeg and Hudson Bay. In 1798 the Hudson's Bay Company established Oxford House as a fur-trading post on the route between Norway House and York Factory. In 1820 employees there went on strike to demand better pay, in an early labour dispute in the fur trade.