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Moose Factory is a community in the Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Moose Factory Island , near the mouth of the Moose River , which is at the southern end of James Bay . It was the first English -speaking settlement in lands now making up Ontario [ 3 ] and the second Hudson's Bay Company post to be set up in North America ...
At the far western end of the upland, there are two other parks. At the south end of Moose Mountain Lake by the dam, there's Lost Horse Hills Heritage Park. It's a small park with a picnic area and dock and is accessed off Highway 47. At the north end of Moose Mountain Lake on the north side of Highway 711, is Saint Clair National Wildlife Area.
Anticosti has had several First Nations names: Natigôsteg, “advanced land” in Mi'kmaq; Natashquan, “where we catch bears”, in Innu. In 1535, Jacques Cartier wrote: "the said island which we have named the island of Assumption", after having written Antiscoti (1612) and Antiscoty (1613), Samuel de Champlain spelled the name of this ...
With a land area of 718.23 km 2 (277.31 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.7/km 2 (1.8/sq mi) in 2021. [ 11 ] In the 2016 Census of Population , the RM of Moose Mountain No. 63 recorded a population of 492 living in 189 of its 218 total private dwellings, a 3.6% change from its 2011 population of 475 .
Alaska moose are hunted for food and sport every year during fall and winter. People use both firearms and bows to hunt moose. [10] It is estimated that at least 7,000 moose are harvested annually, mostly by residents who eat the moose meat. [10] They are also hunted by animal predators: wolves, black bears, and brown bears all hunt moose. [10]
The entrance station of the ZEC Kipawa open from Victoria Day (in May) and close around the end of the hunt of the moose with rifle (in October). Users can access the ZEC Kipawa through Val-d'Or (road Baie Carrière), through Temiscaming (819 Road), through Belleterre and Béarn (road 814).
The Western moose [2] (Alces alces andersoni) is a subspecies of moose that inhabits boreal forests and mixed deciduous forests in the Canadian Arctic, western Canadian provinces and a few western sections of the northern United States. It is the second largest North American subspecies of moose, second to the Alaskan moose.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the RM of Moose Range No. 486 had a population of 942 living in 348 of its 391 total private dwellings, a change of -5.8% from its 2016 population of 1,000. With a land area of 2,423.98 km 2 (935.90 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.4/km 2 (1.0/sq mi) in 2021. [7]