Nottaway

The Nottaway flows northwest from Lake Matagami to Rupert Bay, at the southern end of James Bay. Along the way it widens into Lakes Soscumica and Dusaux and receives the Kitchigama and other rivers. Its name derives from an Algonquian word for enemies, especially the Iroquois. A form of the name appeared on a 1744 map by Arthur Dobbs and Joseph La France, recording a river that drains a great expanse of the northern interior.