Wapiskau

The Wapiskau is one of the rivers crossing the lowlands on the south-west side of James Bay, between the Albany and Moose watersheds. Marshes and shallow coastal waters fringe this part of the bay. The Mushkegowuk travelled and hunted across the neighbouring river country long before European merchants arrived. In the late seventeenth century the Hudson's Bay Company established posts at the mouths of the Albany and Moose, drawing the coast into a growing fur trade.