Marten River Provincial Park
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Marten River
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 Entrance to the provincial park |
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| location | Nipissing District in Ontario (Canada) | |
| surface | 4.00 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 19911 | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 43 ′ N , 79 ° 49 ′ W | |
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| Setup date | 1990 | |
| administration | Ontario parks | |
The Marten River Provincial Park is a 4 km² provincial park in the Canadian province of Ontario . It is located in the Nipissing District south of Lake Temagami , 35 miles north of North Bay on Ontario Highway 11 .
There is a reconstructed logging camp from around 1900, including a museum, a visitor center and a campsite with 216 parking spaces.
history
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The Cree moved to the region at an unknown time. At the end of the 19th century, logging companies began to cut down the vast forests (especially Weymouth pine ('White Pines')). Today only a single 300 year old Weymouth pine stands in the park.
The Cree Nation of Mistissini , which already lives in neighboring Québec , and which emerged from Nitchequon, Neoskweskaau and a few Nemaska from around the 1930s, also used the region, for example for fishing.