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Grand Portage Hist. 
a rendezvous point for fur traders at the Lake Superior end of the long portage to the Rainy River waterway, used by the North West Company as the main entrepôt between Montreal and the inland posts of the Northwest.
- 1773 (1908) . . . have sent two [canoes full of furs] down to the Grand portage. . . .
- 1793 (1933) The Grand Portage is situated in the bottom of a shallow Bay perhaps three miles deep and about one league and a half wide at its mouth. . . .
- 1850 Ninety years, however, have produced no change at the Grand Portage, where such an event would have been readily detected.
- 1939 After Great Britain and the United States signed a treaty of peace in 1783, Grand Portage on the northwest shore of Lake Superior, "the Great Carrying Place" for canoes of the fur trade route from Montreal to the Rockies, was placed in United States territory.
- 1773 (1908) . . . have sent two [canoes full of furs] down to the Grand portage. . . .