Nipissing is a township in central Ontario, Canada on Lake Nipissing in Parry Sound District The term township generally means the district or area associated with a town. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal it began, loyal it remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th) - Land 917,741 km² - Water 158,654 km² (14. ... View of Lake Nipissing from North Bay. ... Parry Sound District is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. ...
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Lake Nipissing, created about 12 000 years ago, is a remnant of the Ice Ages and Glacial Lake Nipissing which covered most of the present-day upper Great Lakes.
Nipissing ("Gichn-bee" or "big water" in Ojibway) covers 215 000 acres or 336 square miles and has an average depth of 4.5 metres or 15 feet.
Lake Nipissing boasts one of Ontario's best and most diverse fisheries with some 45 indigenous fish species including abundant walleye, yellow perch, northern pike, muskellunge, smallmouth bass, freshwater drum, lake herring, whitefish, burbot and panfish.
Because of their language and small size, the Nipissing are frequently considered to be either an eastern group of the Ottawa, a southern part of Ojibwe, or a northern band of Algonkin.
These reasons were more than enough to have made the Nipissing an invaluable trading partner for the French, but their location on the portage between the Ottawa Valley and Lake Huron meant that virtually all of the French fur trade from the western Great Lakes passed through the Nipissing homeland.
During the 1630s and 40s, alliances were formed between the Nipissing, Ottawa, Tionontati, Huron, and Neutrals to seize territory from the Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Mascouten, Fox, and Sauk who apparently were the original resident tribes on the lower Michigan peninsula to the west.
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