Magasin Royal

Magasin royal (French for 'royal store') was the generic name given to a trading post under the purview of the King of France.

According to Ron Brown, author of From Queenston to Kingston: The Hidden Heritage of Lake Ontario's Shoreline, the fort was "little more than a log cabin", and archeologists considered it "the first non-aboriginal building in the Toronto area".

[3] In April 1750, Antoine Louis Rouillé gave permission to build a small, fortified, trading post on the east bank of the Rivière Toronto (now the Humber River), near its mouth on Lake Ontario.

Given the success of Fort Toronto, plans were made in August 1750 to build a larger trading post nearby.

Rousseau accepted a land grant at Head of the Lake near Ancaster in 1795, and he moved his family there to continue his trading with the First Nations peoples.