Eva Marion Lake was a

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in the

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province of

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, consisting of much of the portion of the

Rainy River District Rainy River District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1885. It is the only division in Ontario that lies completely in the Central Time Zone, except for the township ...

lying east of

Atikokan Atikokan (, Ojibwe for ' caribou bones') is a town in the Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The population was 2,642 as of the 2021 census. The town is one of the main entry points into Quetico Provincial Park and promotes it ...

, including the communities of Sapawe and Kawene.Local Services Boards, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 737
. Canadian Legal Information Institute. The area was counted as part of

Rainy River, Unorganized, Ontario Unorganized Rainy River District is an unorganized area in the Rainy River District of Ontario, Canada, comprising all communities in the district which are not part of incorporated municipalities. Quetico Provincial Park is located entirely within ...

in Statistics Canada census data. Nearby places of interest included

Quetico Provincial Park Quetico Provincial Park is a large wilderness park in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its excellent canoe camping, canoeing and fishing. The park shares its southern border with Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which ...

, Quetico Centre and Quetico North. A 2008 memorandum by Ontario's Municipal Infrastructure Investment Initiative indicated that the local services board of Eva Marion Lake was in the process of dissolution. It was dissolved in July 2010 under the Northern Services Boards Act, 1990, with the

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responsible for its assets, liabilities, and records.

Sapawe

Sapawe is an ''Anishinini'' (

Oji-cree The Oji-Cree are a First Nation in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, residing in a narrow band extending from the Missinaibi River region in Northeastern Ontario at the east to Lake Winnipeg at the west. The Oji-Cree people are d ...

) community located 30 kilometres east of Atikokan. Its name (from ''šāpāwē'') means "running

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in '' Anishininiimowin''. Ontario's Crown forest is divided into geographic planning areas known as forest management units. Located around the community of Sapawe is the Sapawe Forest Management Unit.

Kawene

Kawene () was formed due to the

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rail line. It is located at the end of Highway 633, north of Highway 11. Lakes nearby include Eva Lake and Kawene Lake.

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