Etomami

Etomami is a Cree name meaning “where three rivers join,” referring to the meeting of the Etomami, Red Deer and Fir rivers in eastern Saskatchewan. The Etomami flows north from a lake of the same name through a deeply cut valley. This junction lay on a route through the forested interior used by Indigenous travellers and later by fur traders. In 1691 the Hudson’s Bay Company traveller Henry Kelsey passed the lake while travelling between river systems.