Tchakashapug

The Tchakashapug River meets the Albany in the forest and wetland country inland from James Bay. Its name comes from the Swampy Cree language. The Albany carried travellers between the coast and the junction of the Kenogami farther upstream, where the Hudson's Bay Company established Henley House in 1743. Indigenous families from the surrounding river country brought furs to trade at the inland post, following waterways already familiar to them.