Late in 1789, Angus Shaw established a North West Company trading post called Shaw House on the northwest corner of what is now Moose Lake, just north of the cache. The post had three purposes: to trade with the local Indians, act as a transfer point in supplying food to more northerly posts and to extend the North West Company's influence in opposition to its bitter rival the Hudson's Bay Company. When the Hudson's Bay Company built Buckingham House on the bank of the North Saskatchewan River in 1792, Shaw countered by constructing Fort George adjacent to it. This was the end of Shaw House and the post was abandoned permanently in 1793.
Placed by a member of the Lakeland Geocachers