Mistango

The Mistango River runs through the wooded country west of Lake Abitibi and joins the Abitibi River. Its name is of Algonquin origin. The Abitibi flows northwest from the lake to the Moose River and James Bay, forming part of a long route through the northern interior. French traders reached Lake Abitibi in the seventeenth century, entering a region already connected by Indigenous waterways and portages.