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Whitefish Island
Indian reserve
Whitefish Island Indian Reserve
Aerial view of the St. Marys River; Whitefish Island is just to the left of the rapids.
Whitefish Island
Coordinates: 46°31′N 84°21′W / 46.517°N 84.350°W / 46.517; -84.350
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
District	Algoma
First Nation	Batchewana
Area
• Land	0.17 km (0.07 sq mi)
Population
• Total	0
• Density	0/km (0/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Website	www.batchewana.ca
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name	Whitefish Island National Historic Site of Canada
Designated	1981

Whitefish Island is an island in the St. Marys River, just south of Sault Ste. Marie, in Ontario, Canada.

History

It was an ancestral fishing station to the Anishenabek of the Great Lakes region for over 2,000 years. It was reserved for the use of Chief Nebenaigoching and his band in the Robinson Huron Treaty, 1850 with the British Crown. In 1895, it became part of the west side of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.

After it was taken in a series of expropriations from 1902 to 1913 for railway purposes, it became a park in the Parks Canada national inventory. The island was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1981.

A land claim was filed in 1982 by the Batchewana Indian Band, of the Batchewana First Nation, for the 22-acre (89,000 m) island. After years of unsuccessful negotiations, hereditary Chief Edward James Sayers Nebenaigoching occupied the island from 1989 until the claim was settled in 1992. $3.5 million in damages were paid to the tribe, and the island was returned to Indian reserve status in 1997.

• Welcome to White Fish Island
• Ancient fishing weir
• Birch bark longhouse
• Longhouse in winter
• Birch bark lodge
• Boardwalk with 7 flood control gates open (equivalent).
• Sault Ste. Marie waterfront, as seen from Whitefish Island
• St. Marys Rapids
• Beaver dams along Whitefish Channel
• February daphne flowers
• Narrow-leaf blue-eyed grass flowers near the St. Marys Rapids
• Nodding ladies'-tresses
• Small purple fringed orchid
• Trout-lily flower in early spring
• Wild leek in early spring
• Wild raisin in fruit
• Steelhead trout caught in the St. Marys Rapids (introduced species)

References

1. Whitefish Island. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved July 29, 2011.

External links

• Indigenous and Northern Development Canada profile

v t e Places adjacent to Whitefish Island
Sault Ste. Marie Sault Ste. Marie Canal St. Marys River Whitefish Island St. Marys River St. Marys Rapids, Soo Locks Sault Ste. Marie

v t e Algoma District, Ontario
Cities	Elliot Lake Sault Ste. Marie
Towns	Blind River Bruce Mines Spanish Thessalon
Townships	Dubreuilville Hilton Hornepayne Huron Shores Jocelyn Johnson Laird Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional The North Shore Plummer Additional Prince St. Joseph Tarbutt Wawa White River
Villages	Hilton Beach
First Nations	Batchewana Garden River Hornepayne Michipicoten Missanabie Mississauga Sagamok Serpent River Thessalon
Indian reserves	Garden River 14 Goulais Bay 15A Goulais Bay 15C Gros Cap 49 Gros Cap Village 49A Missanabie 62 Mississagi River 8 Obadjiwan 15E Rankin Location 15D Sagamok Serpent River 7 Thessalon 12 Whitefish Island
Unorganized areas	North South East
Local services boards	Aweres Batchawana Bay Goulais and District Hawk Junction Missanabie Peace Tree Searchmont Wharncliffe and Kynoch
Unincorporated communities	Algoma Mills Ansonia Bar River Bellevue Bourdage Corner Bruce Station Cloudslee Dalton Day Mills Dayton Dean Lake Desbarats Dunns Valley Echo Bay Eley Fire River Franz Frater Glendale Goudreau Goulais Bay Goulais Mission Goulais River Gros Cap Harmony Harmony Bay Havilland Bay Heyden Iron Bridge Island Lake Karalash Corners Kentvale Kirby's Corner Kynoch Leeburn Little Rapids Livingstone Livingstone Creek Lochalsh MacDuff MacLennan Maple Ridge Michipicoten Michipicoten River Moiles Mills Montreal River Montreal River Harbour Neebish Nestorville Northland Northland Lake Norris Oba Ophir Parkinson Plummer Poplar Dale Port Findlay Ranger Lake Richards Landing Rock Lake Rydal Bank Sailors Encampment Sand Bay Serpent River Sherwood Sowerby Spragge Sunset Beach Sylvan Valley Wabos Wharncliffe
See also: Communities in Algoma District Census divisions of Ontario

• River islands of Ontario
• Landforms of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
• National Historic Sites in Ontario
• Ojibwe reserves in Ontario
• Sault Ste. Marie