Namew

Namew Lake lies amid the northern forest on the course of the Sturgeon-Weir River. The river enters at its northern end and leaves through Whitey Narrows towards Cross Lake and the Saskatchewan River. Its waters form part of a route between the Saskatchewan and Churchill river systems, used by Indigenous travellers long before the fur trade. In 1776 Alexander Henry and the Frobishers travelled upstream from Cumberland House and established a post at the outlet of Amisk Lake.