Mississagi

The Mississagi River winds through forests and rocky country to the North Channel of Lake Huron. Its name comes from an Ojibwe expression for a river with a wide mouth. The river mouth and the country upstream are part of the homeland of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg. In 1640 Jesuit writers recorded a people they called the Oumisagai living near the river. The North West Company established a fur-trading post at its mouth in 1799; it passed to the Hudson's Bay Company when the two firms merged in 1821.