Tour participants, Baby Point Uncovered, July 29, 2023. Image by Oscar Akamine.
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Resource ID
10474
Access
Open
Credit Line
Image by Oscar Akamine
Date of Creation
29 July 2023
Keywords
Indigenous History, Natural history, natural heritage
Program Category
Tours
Rights
Oscar Akamine
Caption
Tour participants, Baby Point Uncovered, July 29, 2023. Image by Oscar Akamine.
Description
Tour participants stand next to the Humber River, named after the Humber estuary in England by John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. It was referred to by many other names in the past, including Niwa'ah Onega'gaih'ih (Anishinaabemowin /Ojibwe language), meaning Little Thundering Waters, and Gabekanaang-ziibi (Anishinaabemowin /Ojibwe): "leave the canoes and go back river." The Mississauga called the river Kabechenong, meaning “gathering place to tie up." It was mapped by the French (1688) as the "passage de taronto." A 1733 British map of French and Spanish settlements in the Americas shows the "Tanaovate River."