Description

This projectile point was found at Fort Albany, a historic Hudson’s Bay trading post in James Bay. It is a flat triangle cut from a larger piece of repurposed metal of European origin. It was recovered from House #1, a residential space that would have housed Hudson’s Bay Company staff but was also used for the processing of fish and small game. This projectile point is representative of the dynamic cross-cultural exchange that emerged during the era of the European fur trade in Canada between European settlers and local Indigenous communities.