Long before it became home to one of Ontario's premier fishing lodges, the spectacular sandy point of land with its commanding views out over Lake St. Joseph was a traditional meeting place for the Indigenous people of the area.

For hundreds of years, first the Cree and later the Ojibwa would set up their summer camps here to fish the bountiful waters of the lake and converge with other tribes to enjoy months' long social gatherings before returning inland to tend their winter trap lines. Today, Mishkeegogamang First Nation people inhabit the surrounding area and have established a community of 1000 people.
 

Old Post Lodge site was one of the first inland trading posts ever established by The Hudson's Bay Company, and was founded by John Best in 1786. It was an integral part of the fabled fur trade era in Canadian history, it was the site on which Treaty 9 was signed – one of the most significant and encompassing treaties ever negotiated in this country, it was a burial ground, a place of worship, a place of meeting and a place of business.