Whitefish Bay

Whitefish Bay lies at the eastern end of Lake Superior, where the great lake narrows towards the St Marys River. Downstream, the rapids at Bawating have drawn Indigenous people for generations to fish for whitefish. Skilled fishers manoeuvred birchbark canoes in the rushing water and dipped nets among the eddies. The river carries Superior's waters onward towards Lake Huron, making the bay an approach to the passage between the upper lakes.