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Moose Factory
Moose Factory
is a community in the
Cochrane District
,
Ontario
,
Canada
. It is located on
Moose Factory Island
, near the mouth of the
Moose River
, which is at the southern end of
James Bay
. It was the first
English
-speaking settlement in Ontario and the second
Hudson's Bay Company
post to be set up in
North America
after
Fort Rupert
. On the mainland, across the Moose River, is the nearby community of
Moosonee
, which is accessible by
water taxi
in the summer,
ice road
in the winter and chartered helicopter in the off-season (break-up or freeze-up).
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