The
North West Company (NWC) established a fur trade post on the lake, which became the
Hudson's Bay Company's (HBC) when these two companies merged in 1821. Four years later, the post was abandoned, but in 1829 the Moose Lake Post was reestablished, complete with a horse-breeding centre. The post operated an outpost on
Cedar Lake from 1886 on. In 1893, the roles reversed and Cedar Lake became a full fur trade post with Moose Lake serving as its outpost. The post closed circa 1912. In 1900, Thomas Henry Peacock Lamb (also known as THP Lamb or Ten Horse-Power Lamb), an Englishman from Yorkshire, built a
trading post on the western shore of Moose Lake called Lamb's Store, but most people referred to it as "The Post" and predated the current community of Moose Lake by several years. == Demographics ==