First Nation and Aboriginal culture in Northern Ontario - Wasaya Wild - Wilderness Adventures in Northern Ontario, Canada

Cultural Map

Sandy Lake First Nation

Sandy Lake is a fly-in First Nation community located in the boreal forested area of Northwestern Ontario. Sandy Lake is 450 km northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba and 600 km northwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Sandy Lake is a new Wasaya Shar...

Deer Lake First Nation

The Deer Lake First Nation is a small Oji-Cree community located 180 kilometers North of Red Lake, Ontario and within the boundaries of the territory described by the Winnipeg Treaty of 1875 -- Treaty No. 5. The James Bay Treaty No. 9 Commissioners...

Poplar Hill First Nation

Poplar Hill First Nation is a smaller Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community located in Northwestern Ontario, approximately 120 km north of Red Lake, Ontario near the Ontario-Manitoba border. Polar Hill is within the boundaries of the territory described...

Keewaywin First Nation

Keewaywin First Nation is a small Oji-Cree community in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The community is located approximately 200 Km north of Red Lake, Ontario and is accessible by air year-round and by ice roads in the wintertime. The community i...

Pikangikum First Nation

The Pikangikum First Nation is a large Aboriginal community located on Pikangikum Lake, approximately 100 km northwest of Red Lake, Ontario. “Pikangikum” is from the Ojibway word – Biikanjikamiing – that refers to how the Be...

North Spirit Lake First Nation

North Spirit Lake First Nation with a population of approximately 410 people is a small Oji-Cree community located approximately 110 miles north of Red Lake Ontario. The community is serviced by Wasaya Airways year-round and is connected to the S...

Sachigo Lake First Nation

Sachigo Lake First Nation is located approximately 425 kilometers north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario and 150 kilometers west of Big Trout Lake, Ontario. Access to Sachigo Lake is provided by a year round airport which is operated by the Ontario Minist...

Fort Severn First Nation

Fort Severn First Nation is located on Hudson Bay and is the most northern community in Ontario, Canada. Fort Severn became a Wasaya ownership community in 2011. The community is linked in the wintertime by an ice road to Peawanuck, Ontario in th...

Bearskin Lake First Nation

Bearskin Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation located in the Canadian Province of Ontario, located in the Kenora District approximately 425 kilometres north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Bearskin First Nation\'s total registered population in...

Muskrat Dam First Nation

The Muskrat Dam First Nation is a remote Oji-Cree community located approximately 320 miles north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Community members reside on the 1,939.7 hectares (4,793.1 acres) Muskrat Dam Reserve which is situated on the western shore...

Weagamow (Round Lake) First Nation

Weagamow (Round Lake) First Nation also known as North Caribou Lake First Nation is a remote fly-in Oji-Cree First Nation located in Kenora District in Northern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 320 km or 202 air miles north of Sioux Lookout, On...

Cat Lake First Nation

Cat Lake First Nation is an Ojibway community located approximately 180 kilometres northwest of Sioux Lookout in Northwestern Ontario. Wasaya Airways run daily flights on a regular schedule. Winter/ice roads also connect the community to Pickle Lake,...

Marten Falls First Nation

Marten Falls First Nation is located 100 air miles north of Nakina, Ontario or 250 air miles northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario at the junction of the Ogoki and Albany Rivers. Hence it receives its name from the Waterfalls, 50 miles upriver fr...

Eabametoong (Fort Hope) First Nation

Eabametoong First Nation, also known as Fort Hope, is an Ojibway First Nation located on the shore of Eabamet Lake in the Albany River system; the community is located approximately 300 kilometres northeast of T...

Neskantaga (Lansdowne House) First Nation

Neskantaga First Nation (formerly known as Lansdowne House Indian Band), is a remote fly-in Oji-Cree First Nation community in the northern reaches of the Canadian province of Ontario. Neskantaga First Nation is located on beautiful Attawapiska...

Nibinamik (Summer Beaver) First Nation

Nibinamik First Nation also known as Summer Beaver is a small Oji-Cree First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Summer Beaver Settlement that is connected to the rest of the province by its Airport and a winter/ice road th...

Webequie First Nation

The Webequie First Nation is located on the northern peninsula of Eastwood Island on Winisk Lake, 540 kilometers north of Thunder Bay, or 450 kilometers north of Sioux Lookout. Access is by air or a seasonal winter road. There is no year-roun...

Kingfisher Lake First Nation

Kingfisher Lake First Nation is situated within the Sioux Lookout administrative district at Latitude 53 5\'N and Longitude 89 49\'W approximately 350 km Northeast of Sioux Lookout, Ontario and 40 km West of Wunnumin Lake. The current population fi...

Wunnumin Lake First Nation

Today’s Aboriginal residents of Wunnumin Lake originated from Big Beaver House, a major meeting and trading centre that is still considered a settlement on the map. The main trading post at Big Beaver House, the Hudson’s Bay Company, ...

Kasabonika Lake First Nation

Kasabonika Lake First Nation is a Wasaya owner community and member of the Shibogama First Nations Tribal Council and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation - Treaty No.9. They are a remote First Nation that is accessible by air only or by wint...

Wapekeka First Nation

Wapekeka First Nation consists of two Reserves with two Addendums in 1996 and 1997. Wapekeka First Nation is located 26 km (16 miles) Northeast of Big Trout Lake and 451 km (282 Miles) Northeast of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. The latitude and longitude...

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation, also known as Big Trout Lake First Nation, is located approximately 377 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada or 270 miles north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. KI is a Wasaya owner community. ...

Red Lake

Wasaya Airways offers five main base locations to their customers in Northwestern and Northeastern Ontario. Their bases are located in Pickle Lake, Red Lake, Sioux Lookout, Timmins and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Each base provides a vital link...

Rainy River / Baudette MN

To make sure your border crossing from the U.S. into Ontario (or vice versa) runs smoothly please be sure to have at least one form of acceptable ID available such as; Passport Birth Certificate plus state-issued ID Card Passport Card NEXUS Car...