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It was the chief post until 1879 when it, and its name, were transferred to Missinaibi Lake. Around 1990 the clearing where it stood was visible from the air. Brunswick House First Nation gets its name from this and the one on Missinaibi Lake. Today, the river is used for canoeing, fishing, and camping. Recreational use is facilitated by an ...
It heads past the settlement and railway point of Fire River, heads again northeast into geographic Puskuta Township [7] then northeast into geographic Ericson Township, [8] enters Missinaibi Provincial Park, and reaches its mouth at the Missinaibi River. The Missinaibi River flows via the Moose River to James Bay. The river up to the crossing ...
During the Woodland period, Cree and Ojibwe peoples travelled Missinaibi Lake as part of their waterway network linking the Great Lakes with James Bay.French explorers Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers may have passed the lake during their Lake Superior expedition of 1659, while the first written record about the lake is a French account from 1666.
The nation is named after Missinaibi River and Lake, around which the traditional territory of the nation is located. The name "Missanabie" means "Pictured Water", referring to pictographs found on rock faces along Missinaibi River. The communities' mother tongue is Moose Cree, also referred to as the "L-dialect" of Cree language.
The municipality has also erected a sculpture depicting a voyageur portaging along the river. Mattice is home to a historical First Nations cemetery, located two kilometers south of town. It had been abandoned in the 1940s but has now been cleaned up and can be accessed by road or by canoe on the Missinaibi River.
Gardiner Township is a geographic township in the Unorganized North Part of Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada. [1] [3]The township is the location of the mouths of Pickett Creek and the Gardiner River at the Mattagami River, and the confluence of the Mattagami River and the Missinaibi River that forms the Moose River, a river that flows to James Bay.
The Anisininew [1] or Oji-Cree are a First Nation in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, residing in a band extending from the Missinaibi River region in Northeastern Ontario at the east to Lake Winnipeg at the west.
The Pivabiska River is a river in Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. [1] It is in the James Bay drainage basin and is a left tributary of Missinaibi River . The river begins at Lac Pivabiska in geographic Casgrain Township [ 2 ] and heads north.