Eagle Lake is a lake in
Kenora District
Kenora District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The district seat is the City of Kenora.
It is geographically the largest division in Ontario: at , it covers 38 percent of the province's area, making it larger ...
,
Ontario
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, Canada, west of the
City of Dryden.
The communities of
Vermilion Bay and
Eagle Lake First Nation
Eagle Lake First Nation is an Ojibwe
The Ojibwe (; Ojibwe writing systems#Ojibwe syllabics, syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: ''Ojibweg'' ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (''Ojibwewaki'' ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Gr ...
are located on the lake's north shore.
Substantial islands in the lake include Staton Island, North Twin Island, South Twin Island, Net Island, Float Island, Boat Island, and Canoe Island. Large portions of the lake (West Arm, western shore, and around Muskeg Bay) are protected in the
Eagle-Dogtooth Provincial Park.
History
Ancient pictograph sites have been found on Eagle Lake, and in the 1600s the lake may have been part of the fur trade/exploration route.
Circa 1857, the
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), originally the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson’s Bay, is a Canadian holding company of department stores, and the oldest corporation in North America. It was the owner of the ...
(HBC) opened a fur-trade post on the lake, called Eagle Nest or Eagle's Nest House. It operated until 1872, reopened the next year, and closed in May 1876. By 1890, Eagle Nest was in operation once again as an outpost of
White Dog. It is unclear when it closed permanently.
Around 1869, the HBC established another fur-trade outpost on the lake. In 1881, the Eagle Lake Post was relocated to the
Wabigoon River near the
Wabigon Post in order to be closer to the railway. Eagle Lake became an outpost of Wabigon and operated occasionally during the winters. It closed around 1903.
In 2003,
Eagle-Dogtooth Provincial Park was established that protects portions of Eagle Lake.
See also
*
List of lakes in Ontario
References
External links
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Eagle-Dogtooth Provincial Park
Lakes of Kenora District
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