Black Bay

Black Bay is a broad, shallow inlet on the northern shore of Lake Superior. Its warmer waters support fish that are less common in the deep, cold reaches of the open lake, and the Black Sturgeon River flows into its head from the north. East of the bay, the Nipigon River offers a route inland to the great lake of the same name. Towards the end of the seventeenth century, French traders established posts on Lake Nipigon and at the river mouth, entering a region inhabited by Ojibwe communities.