Missanabie is a community in the

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, located in the Algoma District at the northern terminus of Highway 651, inside the boundaries of the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve. A

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served by a local services board, the community had a population of 33 in the

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. Missanabie, located on the north end of Dog Lake, caters to outdoor recreation and serves as the starting point for fishing/hunting trips and lodges in the area.

History

Missanabie was founded as a railroad town along the

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that was completed in 1885. Its name is a corruption of Missinaibi. In 1893, its post office opened. In 1887, the

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established a fur trade post in Missanabie, opposite the station. Facing competition of several other companies, including Revillon Frères, it supplied the HBC New Brunswick post on Missinaibi Lake. After the completion of 2 more east-west railways through northern Ontario (the

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and the National Transcontinental Railway) in 1912, the inland HBC posts along the Missinaibi River were no longer needed, and the Missanabie post became more important as HBC's supply hub, taking over this role from Moose Factory. On June 1, 1938, the Missanabie post was closed and sold.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Missanabie had a population of 33 living in 15 of its 38 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 40. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

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