Kamashikamach

Kamashikamach lies northeast of the broad waters of Lake Evans, on the Broadback River system. In 1817 the Hudson's Bay Company sent John Pitt Greely to establish a post farther inland at Lake Waswanipi. Rivers froze before he could reach it, and he wintered at what was then called Big Lake; Greely, his wife and two men died there in 1818.