Flying Post was a Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...

 trading post

Trading post

A trading post was a place or establishment in historic Northern America where the trading of goods took place. The preferred travel route to a trading post or between trading posts, was known as a trade route....

 located on the Kukatush (variously spelled Kuckatoosh or Ahkuckootish) or Groundhog River

Groundhog River

The Groundhog River is a river in Cochrane District and Sudbury District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The river is in the James Bay drainage basin and is a left tributary of the Mattagami River.-Course:...

, a tributary of the Mattagami River

Mattagami River

The Mattagami River is a river in the James Bay drainage basin in Cochrane District, Timiskaming District and Sudbury District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada....

. The post was approximately eighty miles downriver from Kukatush or Groundhog Lake, and one hundred miles upriver from the river's junction with the Mattagami. It was approximately fifty miles northwest of Matawagamingue. The post was built by Donald McKay

Donald McKay

Donald McKay was a Canadian-born American designer and builder of sailing ships.He was born in Jordan Falls, Shelburne County on Nova Scotia's South Shore. In 1826 he moved to New York, working for shipbuilders Brown & Bell and Isaac Webb...

 in 1800.

First Nation

Flying Post First Nation has a registered population of 162, all living off reserve. The current chief is Ray Murray. The band office is located in Nipigon, Ontario

Nipigon, Ontario

Nipigon is a township in Thunder Bay District, Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located along the west side of the Nipigon River and south of the small Lake Helen running between Lake Nipigon and Lake Superior...

. The band has a 5957.1 hectares (14,720 acre) reserve (48°31′52"N 82°1′1"W), Flying Post No. 73, located 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario

Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario

Smooth Rock Falls is an incorporated town in the Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Part of the James Bay Frontier, it calls itself "The North's Biggest Little Town."-Geography and transportation:...

. The band is a signatory of Treaty 9

Treaty 9

Treaty 9 was an agreement established in July, 1905, between the Government of Canada in the name of King Edward VII and various First Nations in northern Ontario. One First Nation community in the bordering Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec is included in this treaty...

(July 16, 1906)