Everything about Lake Nipissing totally explained
Lake Nipissing (French:
lac Nipissing) is a
lake in the
Canadian province of
Ontario. It is in surface area, has a mean elevation of above
sea level and is located between the
Ottawa River and
Georgian Bay. Excluding the
Great Lakes, Lake Nipissing is the fifth-largest lake in Ontario. It is relatively shallow for a large lake, with an average depth of only . The shallowness of the lake makes for many
sandbars along the lake's irregular coastline. The lake has many
islands.
The largest population centre on the lake's shoreline is the
city of
North Bay. North Bay sits along the lake's northeastern shoreline. Other notable towns are
Callander (south of North Bay along Highway 11). The larger towns toward the western end of the lake are
Sturgeon Falls,
Garden Village,
Cache Bay and
Lavigne.
Lake Nipissing drains into Georgian Bay, which is a part of
Lake Huron, via the
French River. Lake Nipissing lies about northwest of
Algonquin Provincial Park. The French fur trader
Étienne Brûlé was the first European to visit the lake in
1610.
Jean Nicolet, another French trader and explorer had a "cabin and trading-house" for eight or nine years living among the Indians on the shores of Lake Nipissing until
1633 when he was recalled to Québec to become Commissary and Indian Interpreter for the "Company of the Hundred Associates." The first permanent European settlement on the lake dates from around 1874 on the southeast corner. In
1882 the
North West Mounted Police established their presence on the north east shore.
The lake contains over 40 different
species of
fish. Numerous
sport fishing lodges dot the main shoreline or can be found on several of Nipissing's many islands. Most anglers target
walleye,
smallmouth bass,
muskie, and
northern pike. For various reasons, largely social, numerous
stocking associations are engaged in attempts to artificially manipulate the lake's walleye population.
The lake's name means "big water" in the
Algonquin language. The name Nipissing was also given to many places in the area, notably the
Township of Nipissing,
Nipissing District, and
Nipissing University.
In the days of the
fur trade,
voyageurs travelled through the lake by
canoe via the
Mattawa and
French rivers. When the fur trade started to decline in the
1880s, logging became the main economic activity. After
World War I, the primary economic activity became tourism and recreation, although logging still contributes a significant economic stimulus to the area.
Unlike most lakes in Ontario, Lake Nipissing contains two
volcanic pipes, which are the
Manitou Islands and
Callander Bay. The volcanic pipes formed by the violent,
supersonic eruption of deep-origin
volcanoes. Lake Nipissing lies in the
Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben, a
Mesozoic rift valley that formed 175 million years ago.
Image gallery
image:manitouislands.jpg|View of Lake Nipissing from North Bay. The Manitou Islands are in the distance.
image:torbay.jpg|A beach along Lake Nipissing
image:Lake Nipissing Sunset.JPG|Sunset at Lake Nipissing
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