North Bay Early Days #1
North Bay and Area Sept.18/09
Nipissing District was formed in and around 1858. North Bay is the largest community in this area.The origin of the word Nipissing refers to a native American tribe who lived along the lake which bears their name, Lake Nipissing.
Early Algonquin Tribes were a remote, northern nation far removed from the Central American seat of this civilization.They traded goods with the Iroquois and others and were dependant upon crops, such as corn, squash and tobacco that had been developed farther south. In exchange they gave dried meat and furs.
The Nipissing Tribe "people of the little water," a reference to their main location on
Lake Nipissing,a branch of the Ojibway Tribal Organization, part of the Algonquin linguistic group, that dominated in the eastern woodlands of North America. They occupied the important area between the Ottawa and French Rivers which linked couruer de bois(runners of the woods) to the St. Lawrence Seaway therefore very important to the fur trade in the early years.
Nipissing District was formed in and around 1858. North Bay is the largest community in this area.The origin of the word Nipissing refers to a native American tribe who lived along the lake which bears their name, Lake Nipissing.
Early Algonquin Tribes were a remote, northern nation far removed from the Central American seat of this civilization.They traded goods with the Iroquois and others and were dependant upon crops, such as corn, squash and tobacco that had been developed farther south. In exchange they gave dried meat and furs.
The Nipissing Tribe "people of the little water," a reference to their main location on
Lake Nipissing,a branch of the Ojibway Tribal Organization, part of the Algonquin linguistic group, that dominated in the eastern woodlands of North America. They occupied the important area between the Ottawa and French Rivers which linked couruer de bois(runners of the woods) to the St. Lawrence Seaway therefore very important to the fur trade in the early years.
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