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Beausoleil Island (Bimadinaagogi), an Anishinaabeg landscape

The eastern shore of Beausoleil Island, looking out over Severn Sound, photographed in 2026.
The eastern shore of Beausoleil Island, looking out over Severn Sound, photographed in 2026. Beausoleil Island east shore · Explorers' Edge · Photo source · Photo licence: CC0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Beausoleil Island in Georgian Bay, named Bimadinaagogi (“a ridge extending and growing along”) by the Anishinaabeg, is a cultural landscape and place of memory for Indigenous Peoples’ relationships with the land and water. Indigenous narratives record the island’s creation and its importance to Anishinaabeg women who gathered plants and held ceremonies there, after some ten thousand years of occupation.

Scope & context

The cultural landscape as recognized in its designation, not Georgian Bay Islands National Park as a whole.

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