Moosonee, Ontario, is the railhead on James Bay of the Ontario Northland Railway where goods are transferred to barges and aircraft for transport to more northerly communities. Moosonee is not particularly far north (51 degrees) but is isolated due to its lack of road communication to the rest of Ontario. The community was the site of a fur trading post set up in 1903 by Revillon Freres, competitors to the Hudson Bay Company which later bought out Revillon. Moosonee was formerly Ontario's only "Development Area" but became incorporated as a Town in 2000 with a population of about 3000 people (by municipal government estimate, the 2001 Canadian census figures for Moosonee are inaccurate due to incomplete enumeration). More than 80 per cent of the population is Native (Cree).
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