Kapieshimushich

On the Rupert River east of James Bay, Kaipeshimushich is the name given to a portage and a smaller neighbouring carry. The Cree names describe sloping stretches where travellers could take canoes and loads overland around the river's obstacles. Farther downstream, the river reaches the bay at Waskaganish, where a trading post founded in the seventeenth century became a meeting place for Cree people and European fur traders.