Wiyashakimi

Wiyashakimi is the Cree name for a great lake in the northern interior east of Hudson Bay. It means “clear water,” and the Inuit name for the lake refers to the Cree, who used its shores. Its outlet, the Clearwater River, flows west toward Tasiujaq and the bay. In 1818 George Atkinson travelled inland from Tasiujaq with Indigenous companions, reaching the lake by way of the Caribou River before continuing toward the country of the inland seals.