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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.
He selected a better location at the outflow of Missinaibi Lake and called it Missinaibi Lake House. It was occupied each summer until it burnt in 1780. The site was re-occupied from 1817 until about 1821. It was reopened in the early 1870s and in 1879 renamed New Brunswick House. When the railroad was built just north of the lake in 1912-13 ...
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.
After the completion of 2 more east-west railways through northern Ontario (the Canadian Northern Railway and the National Transcontinental Railway) in 1912, the inland HBC posts along the Missinaibi River were no longer needed, and the Missanabie post became more important as HBC's supply hub, taking over this role from Moose Factory. On June ...
[1] The formation lies within Missinaibi Provincial Park. [2] It was first identified by geologists in the late 19th century. [3] The Missinaibi Formation is principally known for having nonglacial sediments, which means that dating the formation has helped scientists track the ebb and flow of glacial activity in the region. [1] [3]
Hauraki Gulf map is my own creation. New Zealand map is an edited copy of File:New Zealand location map.svg. The world map is an edited copy of File:New Zealand on the globe (Antarctica claims hatched) (New Zealand centered).svg. Author: Michal Klajban
Little River County War Memorial during Christmas. Little River County is a county located on the southwest border of the U.S. state of Arkansas, bordering a corner with Texas and Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,026. [2] The county seat is Ashdown. [3] Little River County is included in the Texarkana, TX-AR Metropolitan ...
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