The first post on Cat Lake seems to have been a North West Co. house near west end of the lake. Thomas Fawcett, D. L. S., in 1885 passed the site of this post which, he says, was 1&fract12; miles west of the Hudson's Bay Co. post situated on the south shore near the eastern end. This H.B. Co. post was established about 1820 and appears on the lists of 1857, and 1925 & map of 1832 (No. 101).