Wawiyastan

Wawiyastan is an island in the Abitibi River country, where the wooded lowlands drain north towards James Bay. The Abitibi joins the Mattagami to form the Moose River, a route through the interior to the coast. In 1673 the Hudson's Bay Company established Moose Fort near the river's mouth, on the homeland of the Moose Cree. Its trade depended on Indigenous people who knew the rivers and brought furs from the country upstream.