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Indians
6,000 years ago the ancestors of the Anishnabek Peoples such as the Nipissing First Nation, the Dokis First Nation and the Mattawa Algonquin peoples were living in the North Bay/Temagami area. Read more...

Grey Owl
Grey Owl was one of Canada's first and most famous conservationists, gaining international recognition for his writings and lectures on the Canadian north in the 1930's. Sajo and her Beaver People (1935) is based on Grey Owl's early days in Temagami, and relates how 2 Indian children loved and cared for two pet beavers. Read more...

Bear Island Trading Post
The Bear Island Trading Post is a small general store and marina. It was originally established as a Hudson's Bay Company Post in 1875. In 1974, the Hudson's Bay Company sold their property to the Zufelt family, who then renamed the store the Bear Island Bay Post. Read more...

Temagami Station
The Temagami Station was built in 1907 by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, now the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC), an Ontario Crown Corporation. Read more...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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