Kanagio

Kanagio is the Iroquoian name recorded for Kettle Creek, a waterway flowing south to Lake Erie. The Ojibwe called it Akiksibi, while the French knew it as Rivière Tonti. At its mouth, a natural harbour and the route inland made the surrounding country a gathering place for Indigenous peoples. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the creek formed part of a route between Lake Erie and the waterways of the interior. The explorer Louis Jolliet visited the area in 1669 during his travels through the Great Lakes.