LeanGo-Development-Inc near Oxdrift ON (2491 Result(s))

Nitawin was incorporated in 1986. Our mission is to provide good quality housing to low and moderate income of First Nation families. We have 35 Houses and 2 five plexes with a total of 45 units. We have two sources of income to pay for our operating expe

It was an area distant from main trade routes, the closest Hudson Bay posts were located at Island Lake to the west and at Big Trout Lake to the east. This vast expanse of lakes and forests were the hunting grounds of the Little Suckers (referring to a type of fish) and Crane Clans, the ancestors of most of the Sandy Lake and Deer Lake people.In the last decades of the 1800's, the leading man of the Little Suckers was the famous Jake Fiddler, or 'South Wind'. Jake Fiddler was a great medicine man, conjurer and healer of the people. It is known he visited the May-May-quay-shi-wok in the rock cliffs. He cured the whitefish in South Trout of worms and once he brought back the sturgeon to Cobham Falls.