Piscoutagami

Piscoutagami, later known as Nighthawk Lake, lies in the forested interior west of Lake Abitibi. Its outlet leads into the Frederick House River and thence toward the Abitibi River and James Bay. A French trading post stood at the lake’s outlet in the seventeenth century. In 1785 the Hudson’s Bay Company moved its Frederick House post upriver to the same general area, seeking trade along these inland waters.