A photocopy of handwritten history of the Tyendinaga First Nation by an unknown author, noted as being "First Part of the Story". [Originally titled: Mohawk History]
This file contains photocopies of newspaper clippings about Kanien'keha:ka and the Anglican church history. The church was built on Tyendinaga near the Bay of Quinte. Another church is called Christ Church. This article states it was built on a burial ground of John Ochechuskoh who died in 1810. [Originally titled: Mohawk church Tyendinaga]
This file contains a document called "The Memorial Windows". It could be a church document about the history and development of the church. Page 11 reads, "Mohawk Institute was closed on June 30, 1970. It has since become an Indian Cultural Centre." It discusses the history of Hiawatha and legends of the Five Nations and Six Nations. Also contains a pamphlet from the "Thirty First Annual Six Nations Indian Pageant" in 1979. [Originally titled: Mohawk chapel]
This file contains a magazine clipping titled "Ontario's 1984 Bicentennial" by Charles J. Humber. Also a newspaper clipping titled "A History of Mohawk Land Claims in Vermont" published in Akwesasne Notes (1984). [Originally titled: Mohawks]
This file contains an article titled "Two Rare Translations into the Mohawk Language" by A.J. Clark published in the Ontario Historical Society. [Originally titled: Mohawk language]
This file contains a collection of photographs from inside Kangas Sauna in Thunder Bay, Ontario
This file contains photographs from inside Kangas Sauna in Thunder Bay, Ontario as well as images from an awards ceremony in Toronto, Ontario where representatives from Kangas Sauna attended.
Gashinski, Jenn, 2002. “The Upper Kaministiquia River and the Matawin River fish Inventory Program-Fall 2002, October 2002, Thunder Bay District, OMNR
Kaministiquia Water Management Plan 2002, terms of reference signed by OMNR, OPG, DFO
OMNR-Ontario Power Generation Water Management Planning for the Kaministiquia River Watershed general information handout
OMNR-Ontario Power Generation Kaministiquia River Water Management Plan Comment Sheet
Lake Sturgeon: the Kaministiquia River’s Prehistoric Dweller
Kraemer, Richard A. 1988. “Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature Monitoring Kaministiquia River, April-August 1987” Draft copy, Northwestern region, Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE)
Lake Superior Management Unit Information Package, “Kaministiquia River Salmon Study 1992”, OMNR.
Lake Superior Fisheries Unit, “Telemetry study of fish movement in the lower Kaministiquia River, Quik Report 88-10, December 1988
Beak Consultants Ltd, June 1987, “Survey of the Benthos of the lower Kaministiquia river, 1985, report to Northwestern Region, Water Resources Branch, OMOE
Summary tables for species caught: Catostomus commersoni (White Sucker), Catostomus catostomus (Longnose Sucker), Cyprinus carpio (common carp), Ambloplites rupestris (Rock Bass), Perca flavescens (Yellow Perch), Stizostedion vitreum (Yellow Pickeral aka Walleye) Micropterus dolomieui (Smallmouth Bass), Acipenser fulvescens (Lake Sturgeon), Esox Lucius (Northern Pike); Moxostoma macrolepidotum (Shorthead Redhorse sucker), Moxostoma anisurum (Silver Redhorse sucker), Pomoxis nigromaculatus (Black Crappie), Etheostoma nigrum (Johnny darter).
Gill net sampling with images of Walter Momot, Alan Dextrase, Rod Sein, and Bea Roddy. Sam Stephenson was part of the crew but may have been the photographer or absent that day.
The Kaministiquia River designated as a high focused area to study due to the important link it has to water quality and fisheries. Kaministiquia River has had many spelling variants, including Kaministikwia. Kaministiquia, Ojibway name, means the meeting of rivers or a meandering river with three mouths (Kivi 1987) and was declared by Geography Board of Canada as the official spelling in 1982. The Kaministiquia or the “Kam” as it is known here locally orginates in the North at Dog Lake and, after a meandering course of 60 miles (95 km), it drains into Thunder Bay, of northwestern Lake Superior. It has many rapids and falls, notably the pictureseque Kakabeka Falls (154 feet [47 m] high), site of a major hydroelectric station. A private salmon fish hatchery was established 1986 upstream of Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd Pulp and Paper Mill at the base of the Ontario Power Generation Station outlet in Kakabeka Falls. The river divides into three channels as it enters Thunder Bay, providing deepwater shipping docks at the city of Thunder Bay.” In 1986, the Kaministiquia River received the highest discharge of industrial waste in the city of Thunder Bay. There is historical evidence of thousands of fish dying through the summer months due to oxygen depletion in the 48 kilometre stretch of the lower levels of the river.
Dr. Walter T. Momot of Lakehead University’s biology department accepted the task of investigating the Kaministiquia River Water quality barrier. The study focused on biophysical impacts on the aquatic species above and below the Great Lakes Pulp & Paper Mill of the Kaministiquia River. The preliminary investigations of the International Joint Fisheries Commission identified both physical and chemical impacts along the river. The physical components included the destruction of wetland areas or changes in the substrate composition, both of which were used formerly for spawning and nursery habitat by various aquatic species. Another important physical impact was water temperature fluctuations from effluent discharge and shipping ballast water at the Kaministiquia River delta. The Mission and McKellar rivers meet the Kaministiquia at this river delta. Chemical aspects of the study included the impacts of pollutants from both municipal and industrial sources and chemical lampricide use.
In addition to the biophysical impact study, the IJFC requested that the Ontario government look at impacts of over-exploitation, past and current commercial (lake whitefish and lake trout) and recreation fishery demands (walleye) and impacts of competition by invasive aquatic species. At this point of time, fifteen of the fifty-five species of fish in the Thunder Bay Area of Concern (AOC) were non-native species. This AOC had great potential for new exotic or invasive species. The first objective for this study was to obtain baseline knowledge of the fish community of the river. Stage 2 of the remedial process would assess the response of the fish community to rehabilitation efforts based on the pollution abatement measures of the Remedial Action Plan (RAP) applied to the lower reaches of the Kaministiquia River.
Dr. W. T. Momot worked cooperatively with Lake Superior Fisheries Management Unit (LSMU) of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) and Ontario Ministry of the Environment (OMOE).
The results of this study can be found in the final report named “Fish Community and Aquatic Habitat of the Kaministiquia River.” The study documents the collection of 11, 663 fish that represented a total of 40 of the 44 species known to occur in the Kaministiquia River study area. The study area was divided into distinct reaches of the river name after a geographic landmark. These were named old fort reach (deep and long meandering section with a 3km oxbow, 141.5 ha), great lakes reach (7 km, 126.6 ha), mouth reach (2 km, 36.4 ha), Stanley reach (6 km, 76 ha), Rossyln reach (6km, 55.6 ha), Breukelman Reach (5km, 79.5 ha), Harstone reach (6km, 69.8 ha)and the Kakabeka reach (4km, 45 ha).
A photograph of the main building for Kaministiquia Lumber Company. Description reads, “Main building of Kaministiquia Lumber Company in the 1920’s. A subsidiary of N.M Paterson & Sons Co. Ltd. from the early 1920s to 1954”
Correspondence with residents of Kaministiqiua 1964.
Manuscript, entitled: "Kaministiqua and Pohjola"; Manuscript entitled "Pohjola"; Photocopied excerpt from "Siirtokansan Kalenteri" 1955, entitled "Kaministiquian ja Ympariston Suomalaisten Historiaa" written by Matti Herneshuhta; Interviews with early Finnish residents in area; Map of Kaministiqua area; Minutes and cashbook excerpts from S.S. #1 Ware Dawson Rd; List of teachers for S.S. #2 Ware & Dawson and S.S. #4 Ware and Forbes Schools
Arvid Jarnefelt
Articles written by Mark Kalluak. Photocopy of September/October 1977 edition of Issumavvik, cover page, table of contents, and story titled "Three Sleepless Nights" in syllabics and English. Photocopy of article from Inuktitut magazine from spring 1979 titled "Fifteen years as a businessman" in English, syllabics and Inuit language. Editorial from Keewatin Echo issue from March 1970. Editorial from Keewatin Echo from January 1971, Typed letter from Kalluak to the Inuit Cultural Institute, February 16 1978. Short article from a community newspaper titled "To my Readers" dated August 15, 1963. Editorial from Keewatin Echo October 1972. Article from Keewatin Echo May 1973 titled "Story of Inukshuk." Copy of Uqaqta magazine, issue 2 from December, 1985. Article titled "Early Trading Years are Over" highlighted. Typed copies of extracts of articles written by Kalluak. Handwritten notes.
Eva Hirn
Photocopy of a book titled "Kalli the Esquimaux Christian, a Memoir," published in 1859. Brief biography of Kalligirua written by Clive Holland, 2 copies. Photocopy from an unknown book of pages that mention Erasmus York. Photocopy of a book in different language, potentially Danish, regarding Kallihirua.