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James Bay is important in the history of Canada as one of the most hospitable parts of the Hudson Bay region, although it has had a low human population. It was an area of importance to the Hudson's Bay Company and British expansion into Canada .
Lac Sakami is a lake in the northwest of the province of Quebec in Canada. It is located east of James Bay , south of the Robert-Bourassa Reservoir and north of the Opinaca Reservoir . Lac Sakami is now a reservoir of the James Bay Project with a depth of 113 m (371 ft), an elevation of 186 m (610 ft) and an area of 738 km 2 (285 sq mi).
It was created in the mid-1970s as part of the James Bay Project and provides the needed water for the Robert-Bourassa and La Grande-2-A generating stations. It has a maximum surface area of 2,835 square kilometres (1,095 sq mi), and a surface elevation between 168 metres (551 ft) and 175 metres (574 ft). [ 1 ]
Lake St. Joseph is a large lake in Kenora District and Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. [1] It is in the James Bay drainage basin and is the source of the Albany River. The east end of the lake can be reached using Ontario Highway 599 from the town of Ignace, 260 kilometres (160 mi) to the south on Ontario Highway 17.
Kesagami Lake is a lake of Cochrane District, in Northeastern Ontario, in Canada. [3] It is a shallow lake that was formed assumedly by glacial erosion and unique for its size in the James Bay area. [2] Entirely protected within Kesagami Provincial Park, it is notable in particular for its trophy pike and walleye fishing. [4]
The river empties into the Akimiski Strait on James Bay via a series of channels. The community of Fort Albany lies on a southern channel and the Kashechewan First Nation on a northern one. The river is navigable for the first 400 kilometres (249 mi).
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James Bay is a high density neighbourhood of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is the oldest residential neighbourhood on the west coast of North America that is north of San Francisco . It occupies the south side of the Inner Harbour close to downtown.