CNHS The Kaministikwia Route - Kakabeka Falls ON
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PeterNoG
N 48° 24.075 W 089° 37.520
16U E 305693 N 5364229
This Canadian National Historic Sites Plaque is in Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park which is just off the Trans Canada Highway about 30 km west of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WMEWM6
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 07/14/2012
Views: 12
The plaque is on the west side of the Kaministiquia River and on the south side of the Visitor Center parking lot at the trailhead for the Mountain Portage Trail.
~ the text from the plaque ~
The Kaministikwia Route
This chain of rivers, lakes and portages linking the St. Lawrence system with the waterways of the prairies had been known to the Indians for centuries when Jacques de Noyon first travelled it in 1688. After 1800, when the boundary settlement had placed the more southerly Grand Portage in the United States, the North West Company re-opened Kaministikwia route, which for almost 25 years was the main highway to the west. From Fort William at the mouth of the river canoes were tracked upriver to this point, the first major obstacle on the route.
'Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada'
'Government of Canada 1927' but this is not the 1927 plaque
Classification: National Historic Event
Province or Territory: Ontario
Location - City name/Town name: Kakabeka Falls
Link to Parks Canada entry (must be on www.pc.gc.ca): [Web Link]
Link to HistoricPlaces.ca: Not listed
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