James Lake is a
lake
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in northeastern
Ontario
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,
Canada
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, located in the
Temagami
Temagami, formerly spelled as Timagami, is a municipality in northeastern Ontario, Canada, in the Nipissing District with Lake Temagami at its heart.
The Temagami region is known as ''n'Daki Menan'', the homeland of the area's First Nations commu ...
region along
Highway 11.
History
Water levels of James Lake increased and decreased in the early 1900s.
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/ref> The cause of this alternation could have been caused by beaver
Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers ar ...
s building dams in the lake's outlet, eventually causing the water levels in rise.Northland Pyrite Mine
The Northland Pyrite Mine, also known as James Lake Mine, Rib Lake Mine, Harris Mine or simply Northland Mine, is an abandoned underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the southwestern shore of James Lake in Best Township of Te ...
on the lake's southwestern shore dumped waste rock into the lake.
See also
*Lakes of Temagami
There are more than 200 named lakes located partially or entirely within the Municipality of Temagami, Northeastern Ontario, Canada. They are located in all 25 geographic townships comprising this municipality. The largest, by both area and ...
References
Lakes of Temagami
Lakes of Timiskaming District
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