Pictures of the town of Eabametoong (Fort Hope NW Ontario)
Pictures of the town of Ebabametoong (Fort Hope NW Ontario)
Link to the communities main page
Link to video and article links about Fort Hope
Main page for Eabametoong First Nation. (Fort Hope)
Eabametoong, also known as Fort Hope, is an Ojibway First Nation in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada. Located on the shore of Eabamet Lake in the Albany River system, the community is located approximately 300 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay and is accessible only byairplane to Fort Hope Airport or water, or by winter/ice roads, which connect the community to the Northern Ontario Resource Trail.
Eabametoong is policed by the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, an Aboriginal based service.
The Indian reserve is completely surrounded by territory of the Unorganized Kenora District.
The following information is paraphrased from the Eabametoong First Nation web site:
Eabametoong came to be during the fur trade era when the Hudson’s Bay Company set up a trading post by Eabamet lake in 1890. Canoe was used as the main source of transportation so the post had to be near water. The Fort Hope Band came into existence in 1905 when the treaty was signed by 500 people. The new community of Eabametoong started in 1982 with the official name of Eabametoong First Nation being adopted in 1985.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eabametoong_First_Nation
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