Wabigoon Lake is a
lake
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located in the
Kenora District in
northwestern Ontario
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,
Canada
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. The community of
Dryden (pop 8,198) is located on the north shore of the
lake
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, and the primary inflow and outflow is the
Wabigoon River
The Wabigoon River is a river in Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It flows from Raleigh Lake past Dryden, Ontario on Wabigoon Lake to join the English River. The name "Wabigoon" comes from the Ojibwe ''waabigon'', "marigold", o ...
. A dam built to provide power for the early pulp and paper company raised the original level of the lake by several feet and its current average depth is , destroying a significant amount of the local timber and
wild rice
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in the process.
The name "Wabigoon" comes from the
Ojibwe
The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains.
According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of ...
''waabigon'', "marigold", or ''waabi-miigwan'', "white feather".
Freelang Ojibwe Dictionary
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See also
* List of lakes in Ontario
References
Lakes of Kenora District
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