Wemitigoj

Wemitigoj-Sibi, the French River, carries the waters of Lake Nipissing west to Georgian Bay. Its rapids and channels were part of an Indigenous route between the Ottawa River and the upper Great Lakes. French travellers followed it in the seventeenth century, among them Étienne Brûlé and Samuel de Champlain; missionaries and fur traders came after them. The Dokis and Restoule Ojibwe communities lived along the river and its neighbouring waterways, in a country of forests, rock and many islands.