Batchawana Bay
Coordinates: 46 ° 55 ′ 28 ″ N , 84 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ W.
Batchawana Bay is a small bay on the east coast of Lake Superior , about 50 km north of Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario) , Canada .
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Batchawana Bay got its name from the Anishinabe and was named after the ojibwesichen term Badjiwanung , which indicates bubbling water. The water bubbles arise between Batchawana Island and Sand Point, where the river narrows, creating strong currents and suction. The Anishinabe believed that these bubbles came from an underwater spirit trying to surface.
Batchwana Bay was an important fishing spot for the Anishinabe and later for the North West Company . The Hudson's Bay Company had a branch and a fishing station there at the mouth of the Batchawana River , which flows into the bay. In the early 1920s the largest fish ever caught in the Great Lakes was recorded there. Frank Lapoint caught the sturgeon , which is estimated to be around 90 years old. He measured 2.25 m and weighed about 140 kilograms.
The bay extends from the north side of Whitefish Point on the Canadian side of Lake Superior and divides Haviland and Harmony Bays from Batchawana Island. Batchawana Island and Whitefish Point are important flight destinations and stopovers for bird migration . Batchawana Island was also a place where the Anishinabe buried their dead.
The bay was for a time the border between the areas of British immigrants and those of the Native Americans of Canada set out in the Robinson Treaties.
On the west coast of the bay is Batchawana Bay Provincial Park and the community of Batchwana Bay. The community is on Highway 563.
Nearby Batchwana Mountain is the fourth highest point in Ontario at 653 m above sea level .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Barbara Chisholm, Andrea Gutsche, Russell Floren: Superior: Under the Shadow of the Gods . Lynx Images, Toronto 1998, ISBN 9780969842774 , pp. 28-29, OCLC 39380117 .
- ^ Mountains . In: Atlas of Canada . Natural Resources Canada . August 12, 2009. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2010.