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Fort Frances town (1991 pop. 8,891), SW Ont., Canada, on Rainy River, opposite International Falls, Minn. It is chiefly a lumbering center with sawmills and a pulp and paper factory. Tourism is also an important industry, with abundant fishing and hunting nearby. Formerly there was a Hudson's Bay Company post on the site, built (1820) near the ruins of an earlier (1731) French post, Fort St. Pierre.

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Fort Frances, Ontario/Canada Fort Saint‐Pierre Originally a fur trading post built in 1731, it was renamed in 1830 after the wife of Sir George Simpson (1792–1860), general superintendent of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada and governor of Rupert's Land from 1821.

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