Norway House, Manitoba

Norway House is a community with approximately 4,000 residents about 30 km north of Lake Winnipeg on the shore of the eastern channel of the Nelson River in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Norway House is also an Indian reservation on the territory of the municipality ( Kinosao Sipi Cree Nation), which is why the community protrude both a mayor and a tribal leader. Provide the economic foundation of the community fishing, fur trading and logging. Due to seasonal unemployment is up to 70%.

Norway House was originally a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company and for a long time the most important of items in the North American country. In the 19th century the most important decisions of the company were met in council meetings on site, before 1869 whose territories were sold to the Canadian Dominion, the forerunner of today's Canada. The following colonization of the northern plains of fur Hanel lost its importance, and with it also Norway House.

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