Mmesagamesing

Mmesagamesing takes its name from an Ojibwe-named lake and river in the forested country south of Lake Nipissing. The river belongs to the French River drainage, whose waters reach Georgian Bay. The French River itself formed part of an older Indigenous route between the Ottawa valley and Lake Huron. In the seventeenth century French travellers, missionaries and fur traders followed these waterways, passing through a landscape of lakes, rapids and forest already known to local communities.