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Arctic Watershed

Photo by contributor Jamie Toeppner - November, 2005

Plaque Location

In the District of Timiskaming
On Highway 11 where the watershed crosses the highway, about 20 km north of Highway 66 at coordinates N 48 13.047 W 80 15.413.

Plaque Text

The height of land known as the Arctic Watershed crosses Highway 11 at this point. North of here, water drains into Hudson Bay; rivers, lakes and streams to the south flow into the Great Lakes. As the northern wilderness came under development, the erratic line of the watershed defined territorial boundaries. It marked the southern limit of Rupert's Land, the vast territory granted to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670. Two centuries later, it formed the northern boundary of lands ceded to the Crown by the First Nation Ojibwa in the Robinson-Superior Treaties of 1850.

Related Ontario plaque pages
Robinson Superior Treaty
The Arctic Watershed

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