Pekatek

Pekatek is a name recorded for the country at the mouth of the Pic River on Lake Superior's northern shore. The river carries silt from inland clay deposits, colouring the water where it enters the lake. Ojibwe communities lived along its banks, while the river offered a route into the forests toward the northern watershed. By 1821 a fur-trading post stood at the mouth; its trader Alexander McTavish passed into Hudson's Bay Company service when the rival companies merged that year.