Kapuskasing

The Kapuskasing River winds through the forested country of the James Bay drainage basin before joining the Mattagami. Its name comes from the language of the Moose Cree, whose homeland encompasses these northern waterways. To the west, the Missinaibi formed a major canoe route between Lake Superior and James Bay, used by Indigenous travellers long before it carried the traffic of the fur trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.