Rib Lake is a long and narrow

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

in the Town of Latchford and in the Municipality of

Temagami Temagami, formerly spelled Timagami, is a municipality in northeastern Ontario, Canada, in the Nipissing District with Lake Temagami at its heart. The Temagami region is known as ''n'Daki Menan'', the homeland of the area's First Nations com ...

in Northeastern

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, located about southeast of the centre of the community of Latchford and northeast of the community of Temagami North. The lake is in the

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and is the main access for

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en route to

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. The lake was originally called ''Gitchiway-Pigigonaysing'' by the

Teme-Augama Anishnabai The Teme-Augama Anishnabai (from the Anishinaabe ''Dimii'aagamaa Anishinaabe'', "the deep water people") is the Indigenous Anishinaabe community of the Temagami First Nation. The ancestors of Teme-Augama Anishnabai have trapped and hunted animal ...

, meaning ''Big Rib Lake''.

Geography

The lake is about long north to south and wide east to west. With the exception of the very southern tip, the lake is in the South Part of

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Gillies Limit Township in

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, today part of the town of Latchford; the southern tip is in geographic Best Township in

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, today part of the municipality of Temagami. There are ten creek inflows: one at the north end of the lake from Johnson Lake; four on the east side, from an unnamed pond, Roosevelt Lake, Cliff Lake and an unnamed lake from north to south; one from unnamed lakes at Murphy's Bay at the southeast end; four on the west side, two from unnamed ponds, from Whitney Lake and an unnamed pond from north to south. The primary outflow is Net Creek, towards Petrault Lake, at the southwest corner of the lake, which eventually flows via

Net Lake Net Lake is located within the municipality of Temagami, in the Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. It covers a length of 10 km and is located in Temagami North. Fish in the lake include walleye, northern pike, trout, smallmouth bass, white ...

Cassels Lake Cassels Lake (originally known as White Bear Lake) is a lake located within the Municipality of Temagami, in the Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. It contains numerous portages, campsites and is one of three lakes on the eastern edge of the Whi ...

, Rabbit Lake, the

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, and the

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into the Saint Lawrence River.

Transportation

The

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mainline runs along the entire west side of the lake; the stops/settlements of Freeman and Rib Lake are on west shore.

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(

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) and the

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run just west of the lake.

References

Other map sources: * * {{refend Lakes of Temagami Lakes of Timiskaming District

Geography

Transportation

See also

References