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The Pic

Photo by contributor Thomas William Kirkbride - Posted June, 2006

Plaque Location

The District of Thunder Bay
The Town of Marathon
Near St. Xavier Church, off Park Road, Pic River First Nation

Coordinates: N 48 37.529 W 86 16.158

Plaque Text

The mouth of the Pic River has been the centre of native trade and settlement for thousands of years. It was a strategic location in the region's water transportation network because it offered access to northern lands and a canoe route to James Bay. The halfway point for canoers travelling the north shore of lake Superior, "the Pic" first appeared on European maps in the mid-seventeenth century. Local natives began to trade furs with the French in the late 1770s, prompting a French trader to set up a post here by 1792. The Hudson's Bay Company operated the post from 1821 until encroaching settlement led to its relocation in 1888. In 1914 the Pic became a treaty reserve of its traditional inhabitants, the Ojibways of Pic River No. 50 First Nation.

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