Batchawana Bay

46.92455 - 84.56663Koordinaten: 46 ° 55 ' 28 " N, 84 ° 34 ' 0 " W

Batchawana Bay is a small bay on the eastern coast of Lake Superior, about 50 km north of Sault Ste. Marie ( Ontario), Canada.

Background

Batchwana Bay was an important fishing place for the Anishinabe and later also for the North West Company. The Hudson 's Bay Company maintained there a branch office and a fishing station at the mouth of the Batchawana River, which flows into the bay. In the early 1920s there was recorded the biggest fish that has ever been caught in the Great Lakes. Frank Lapoint caught the sturgeon, which estimates after was about 90 years old. He was 2.25 m and weighed about 140 kilograms.

The bay extends from the north side of Whitefish Point on the Canadian side of Lake Superior and shares Haviland and Harmony Bay Batchawana Iceland. Batchawana Iceland and Whitefish Point are important destinations and stopovers for migrating birds. Batchawana Iceland was also a place where the Anishinabe buried their dead.

The bay was for a time the border between the territories of the British immigrants and those of natives of Canada, which were laid down in the Treaties Robinson.

On the west coast of the bay is the Batchawana Bay Provincial Park and the community Batchwana Bay. The community is located on Highway 563

The nearby Batchwana Mountain is the fourth highest point in Ontario with a height of 653 m above sea level.