Takwata

Takwata Lake and its river lie in the forested country south of James Bay. The river joins the Abitibi, whose waters eventually reach the Moose River and the bay. The lake gives its name to the Taykwa Tagamou people, whose country includes this inland region. The Moose and its connected waterways became part of the fur-trade route to the coast, where the Hudson's Bay Company established Moose Fort in the seventeenth century.