Ouentarionk

Ouentarionk was a Wendat name for the broad lake east of their homeland, later known as Lake Simcoe. Its shores and waters lay along canoe routes joining Georgian Bay to Lake Ontario and the Trent waterway. In 1615 Samuel de Champlain crossed the lake with a Wendat war party bound for Haudenosaunee country. Further south, the Toronto Carrying-Place linked the lake to rivers flowing into Lake Ontario, providing a route through the forests between the two watersheds.