Ekwan

The Ekwan River crosses the Hudson Bay Lowlands to enter James Bay opposite the western end of Akimiski Island. Its Cree name means “the river far up the coast”, and a form of it appears on Jacques-Nicolas Bellin's map of 1744. Omushkego travellers also knew an inland route between the Ekwan's mouth and the Winisk River on Hudson Bay, avoiding the exposed coast around Cape Henrietta Maria.