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Missanabie is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Algoma District at the northern terminus of Highway 651, inside the boundaries of the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve. A designated place served by a local services board , [ 3 ] the community had a population of 33 in the 2021 Canadian census .
In 2008 Missanabie turned down an offer of $30 million from Canada. In 2011, on August 17, The Missanabie Cree First Nation and the Government of Ontario signed an agreement to provide the Nation with 15 square miles (39 km 2) of land as an initial allotment of a total 70 square miles (180 km 2) to which they are entitled under Treaty 9. [4]
Between 100 and 200 Cree and Ojibwa families came to live near the post. In the 1880s, the Canadian Pacific Railway was built at Dog Lake, to the west of Missinaibi Lake, where the railroad town of Missanabie was founded. To avoid confusion, Missinaibi Lake House was renamed to New Brunswick circa 1887.
In fur trade days the Missinaibi was the main route between James Bay and Lake Superior. The route was: James Bay, Moose Factory, Moose River, Missinaibi River, Missinaibi Lake, portage probably via Crooked Lake, Dog Lake, Michipicoten River to Fort Michipicoten on Lake Superior. Trade was contested by the English from the north and the French ...
Dog Lake is a lake in northwestern Ontario, [1] Canada which drains south through the Kaministiquia River to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior. It was on the voyageur route to western Canada. Its name comes from a large aboriginal effigy of a dog on a nearby hill. The lake is primarily fed by Dog River and seasonal melting of the
When Minnesota firefighters arrived at Little Elk Lake, they said that the dog was weak and struggling in the water.
From the outlet of Dog Lake, the Michipicoten River flows south through a series of large lakes: Manitowik and Whitefish. Then it flows mostly west to Lake Superior. There are four hydroelectric generating stations on this last section of the river (operated by Brookfield Power Inc. ), and at its mouth is the Michipicoten Provincial Park that ...
When a winter storm is on the way, everyone rushes to the grocery store.If you don't join them quickly, the shelves could be bare by the time those first flurries fall.