Eskimanetigon

Eskimanetigon was an Indigenous name for the river now called the Spanish, which flows south to the North Channel of Lake Huron. Its mouth faces the islands of the Manitoulin country, used by Ojibwe communities of the northern shore as well as by the Odawa. In 1824 John McBean, a Hudson's Bay Company officer at the La Cloche trading post, recorded the river's name on a map. The river and its tributaries provided routes through the wooded country north of the lake.