Mesagami

Mesagami belongs to the inland lake, river and muskeg country west of James Bay. Cree families used the waterways and forests for fishing, hunting and trapping, moving between camps as the seasons changed. Canoe routes linked the interior with the coast. From 1673, the Hudson's Bay Company post at Moose Factory on the Moose River drew inland hunters and their furs toward the bay. In winter the lakes and rivers froze, and travel by sledge and snowshoe depended on knowledge of the ice.