6 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
published maps and descriptions have been our principal sources of 
information about the geography of the mouths of these two streams 
until very recent years. 
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Site of Old York Fort 
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100 
in 1912 
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Plan of site of old York Fort, 1912. 
After the fort had been reerected on the old site in 1783 it was 
occupied for five years, when Joseph Colen, who had succeeded 
Humphrey Martin as governor, decided to move to somewhat higher 
land half a mile farther up the river, so he commenced to build on 
the site of the present York Factory, and by 1792 the new buildings 
were completed, and the staff of clerks and employees was moved into 
