Abitibi-De-Troyes Provincial Park

Abitibi-De-Troyes Provincial Park
Map showing the location of Abitibi-De-Troyes Provincial Park
Map showing the location of Abitibi-De-Troyes Provincial Park
LocationCochrane District, Ontario, Canada
Nearest townIroquois Falls
Coordinates48°45′07″N 80°02′44″W / 48.75194°N 80.04556°W / 48.75194; -80.04556
Area4,340 ha (16.8 sq mi)
DesignationCultural Heritage
Established1985
Named forPierre de Troyes
Governing bodyOntario Parks
www.ontarioparks.com/park/abitibidetroyes

Abitibi-De-Troyes Provincial Park is in Cochrane District of Northern Ontario, Canada, and protects Long Point Peninsula (a 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long peninsula extending into Lake Abitibi), and small section of the Abitibi River from the lake's outlet to Couchching Falls, as well as the lake's southern shore between the peninsula and outlet. It was established in 1985 and provides backcountry canoeing, camping, hunting, fishing and nature viewing activities. The park is named after Pierre de Troyes who may have portaged across Long Point during his Hudson Bay expedition in 1686.

Notable features of the park include coniferous forest, swamps, eskers, kettle basins, and waterfowl nesting areas. It contains 14 documented archaeological sites on Long Point and at the lake's outlet at the Abitibi River. Furthermore, the Long Point peninsula also has two sites of historic significance. One site is the portage trail that was likely used by indigenous people and fur traders, as well as by de Troyes' expedition to Hudson Bay in 1686. The other site is called "The Lonely Tombstone," where a voyageur is buried who shot himself while taking his gun out of the canoe in 1865.

It is a non-operating park, meaning that there are no facilities or services, and only accessible via air or water.

This park was reconfigured and reclassified in April 2005. It formerly included the public lands along the Abitibi River all the way to Iroquois Falls, but most of these were deregulated because the significant amount of private land interspersed with park lands that complicated the management of the waterway class park. The islands in the lake were also formerly part of this park but were transferred to the newly-created Lake Abitibi Islands Provincial Park. It changed classification from waterway to historical class park.

Flora

In mesic habitats, the dominatant trees are coniferous species, such as balsam fir, white spruce, white cedar, and sporadically black spruce.

Wet sites are characterized by black spruce and white cedar, mixed at times with upland species such as white birch, white spruce, and balsam fir. Trembling aspen and mixedwood stands with predominantly birch can be found along the banks of the Abitibi River and shores of Lake Abitibi, as well as in the central portion of Long Point Peninsula.

The drier locations, such as crests of eskers, old beach ridges, and high bluffs, are marked by intolerant hardwood and occasional pine stands, with red pine, Jack pine, and very rarely, white pine present in small isolated patches.


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