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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.
Mattice-Val Côté is an incorporated township in Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. [1] It is located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Hearst and 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of Kapuskasing on Ontario Highway 11.
Its name is a corruption of Missinaibi. [5] In 1893, its post office opened. In 1887, the Hudson's Bay Company established a fur trade post in Missanabie, opposite the station. Facing competition of several other companies, including Revillon Frères, it supplied the HBC New Brunswick post on Missinaibi Lake.
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.
Backcountry is a 2014 Canadian nature–survival horror film, written and directed by Adam MacDonald, marking his feature film directorial debut.It is loosely based on the true story of a hungry man-eating black bear that attacked Mark Jordan and Jacqueline Perry, in the back country of Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park, North of Chapleau, Ontario in 2005, events for which Mark later received ...
The river flows 100 km northeast from the confluence of the Mattagami and Missinaibi Rivers into James Bay. Its drainage basin is 108,500 square kilometres (41,900 sq mi) and it has a mean discharge rate of 1,370 cubic metres (48,000 cu ft).