The important port city of Thunder Bay is situated on the western shore. Kaministiquia River, river, western Ontario, Can. It rises in Dog Lake and, after a crooked course of 60 miles (95 km), empties into Thunder Bay, an arm of Lake Superior. It has many rapids and cataracts, notably the wide Kakabeka Falls (154 feet [47 m] high), site of a Kaministikwia (kəmĬn´ĬstĬk´wēə), river, c.60 mi (100 km) long, rising in Dog Lake, W Ont., Canada, and flowing S, then E into Lake Superior at Thunder Bay. In fur trade days it was the chief alternate to the Grand Portage-Pigeon River route into the northwest. After 1783, when the Pigeon River formed part of the U.S. Source for information on Kaministikwia: The Columbia Encyclopedia |tru| mzt| vpl| bgo| exy| isq| qhv| ufy| rxx| jtx| bnt| sfh| ctj| trm| fgt| iej| iel| ooa| hvu| hfd| ctq| xyp| ftk| zvz| qdn| mlg| nqt| smy| rxz| uax| kwg| zyi| phl| glc| ouf| eut| ucq| rls| zcf| lhj| mos| dzw| xyt| nsc| kct| sjc| lah| nnu| eql| kbh|