Nopiming Provincial Park
IUCN Category II - National Park
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The Nopiming Provincial Park is a 1429 km ² large park in the south east of the Canadian province of Manitoba. The name is derived from the Anishinabe word Nopiming, which can be translated as " entrance to the wilderness ."
The nature reserve was established in 1976 and serves to maintain the typical for an area of boreal shield flora and fauna of a rocky landscape. This technique, known as Lac Seul Upland area is the remnant of a 2.5- billion year old mountain range. The major lakes, which are now used by canoeists, are the Seagrim Lake, the distance from the Rabbit River to Cole Lake, from the Bird River to Elbow Lake, on the Manigotagan River, from Long Lake to Caribou Landing and the Lake Beresford to Garner Lake or Long Lake. A longer route offers the Manigotagan River between Caribou Landing and the place Manigotagan.
The south joins the Whiteshell Provincial Park, north of Atikaki Provincial Wilderness Park, to the northeast of the already located in Ontario Woodland Caribou Provincial Park.
The entire region, consisting of provincial parks and traditional territories of the resident in the border area between Ontario and Manitoba First Nations to find by 2012 recognition as world heritage. For this purpose, based in Ontario Pikangikum First Nation and the people living in Manitoba First Nations from the Poplar River ( at Winnipeg ), Pauingassi and Little Grand Rapids have come together. Part of the initiative are beyond the Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Manitoba Conservation. The First Nations of Ontario the Wabaseemoong, Grassy Narrows and Lac Seul which are in turn a partner of the Woodland Caribou - parks.
Flora and Fauna
The area was covered until about 10,000 years of ice. By the melting of Lake Agassiz, who also coined the parkland was created. Poplar, birch and various conifers, such as jack pine ( "jack pine" ), black spruce and white spruce followed the initially collected lichens. There were alder, hazel and Vermont maple ( Acer spicatum ).
Frequently among the larger mammals are Timber Wolf, Black Bear, Moose, Whitetail Deer and Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou ). Recently, Pumas were again (called " cougars " ) sighted.
History
Early History
Human traces can be detected from about 6000 BC. A processing site of copper dates back to around 2000 BC To 500 AD can be detected pottery, for their production of local clay was used. They have ornament tracks.
Tools were also made of local materials, as one, white quartz ' designated stone. Other stones were brought from South Dakota and the region of Lake Superior, suggesting a long-range barter. The inhabitants were hunters, gatherers and fishermen.
By 1800, the vast majority of the territory was taken east of Lake Winnipeg from the Anishinabe to complete. Their descendants today live mostly on the eastern shore of the lake. They came from the area around Sault Ste. Marie and displaced older Cree groups, is reported in their legends of a two-day battle. The Anishinabe or Ojibwa fished primarily during the spring and summer at the river mouths. In the fall they moved up the rivers, and gathered many wild rice, hunted moose and caribou. The manufacture of clothing and blankets served mainly to hunt beavers and muskrats.
Gold rush (1911-1937)
In 1911 the trappers Duncan twohearts with his dog sled to the Rice Lake and discovered gold. Alexandre Desautels secured the first claims, other prospectors flocked to the area of Wanipigow River and the later Nopiming Park. But the gold stuck in the rock and could not be out of the water seven, as the Klondike or in California. Einzelprospektoren did not have enough capital to the gold recovery difficult to achieve, and so mining companies came on the scene.
The first was the Central Manitoba Mine, 6.5 km north of Long Lake. She worked in parallel on five gold veins. In the winter of 1926/1927 brought heavy equipment by Manigotagan, then continue with horses on a winter road. A route from Long Lake to the Great Falls was created over a length of 70 km. The resulting reservoir there provided the power; the steam-powered machines were gradually replaced by electric.
In the summer it went over the Manigotagan River then over 30 Portage points in the direction of the Claims. This difficult route was abandoned gradually after a few years in 1922. Now it branched off from the Government Landing and followed, first with horse cart, then by truck, the Caribou Road to Caribou Landing. The mine employed 125 men alone. From 1927 to 1937, the Central was operated and brought 4537 kg gold and 738 kg of silver produced. Although gold and silver were mined only a relatively short time, stood at the end of the infrastructure in order to reduce other minerals. For example, the Gunnar Mines caused to the Beresford Lake and the San Antonio Mine at Bissett.
Exhibition, woodland caribou, Johnson's hut
On Black Lake, the Caribou of Nopiming that offers an exhibition on the small Waldkaribuherde, which is under strict protection is. It consists of about 50 to 60 animals.
One of the few remaining huts Johnson Trapper 's Cabin at Beresford Lake campground. After the gold rush had abandoned their colony near the lake, the Trapper John Jack Johnson was the only one there.