Michipicoten Point
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Michipicoten Point
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
I was scouting around Michipicoten looking for the location where my artist friend Lawrence Nickle painted "Michipicoten Harbour". I did not find his vista but this point on the north side of the Michipicoten River caught my eye. I had taken Government Dock Road hoping to find some great subject matter to paint later. It was raining much too hard to paint en plein air. I liked the view looking southward from the beach to the point on the north side of the Michipicoten River. There was informative and interesting signage throughout the village. I read most of them.
Michipicoten is a word in the Ojibwe language that means "big bluffs". The Michipicoten River is a river in the Algoma District of northern Ontario, Canada, which flows from Dog Lake and joins with the Magpie River to empty into Michipicoten Bay on Lake Superior near the town of Wawa. This river is 113 km in length including Lochalsh River to the outlet of Wabatongushi Lake and drains an area of about 5,200 square kilometres. In the days of the fur trade, this river provided access to James Bay by way of the Missinaibi and Moose rivers. Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers are believed to be the first non-natives to travel this route. A French fur trading post was built at the river's mouth in the early 18th century. The Hudson's Bay Company started building trading posts along the route in the 1770s. The HBC post at Michipicoten River was operated until abandoned in 1904.
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December 11th, 2018
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Comments (2)
A Hillman
Fabulous! l/f
Phil Chadwick replied:
Thanks Sunny! This too brings back a lot of memories! Art is about learning and remembering...