Excerpt from Report on a Part of the North West Territories of Canada Drained by the Winisk and Upper Attawapiskat Rivers; Report on a Traverse Through the Southern Part of the North West Territories From Lac Seul to Cat Lake in 1902 This district forms part of what was known for a time, prior to the inauguration of the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, as the District of Keewatin, and lies between the northern boundary of Ontario and the southwestern shore of Hudson bay. It is drained by rivers running from the west into James bay and into Hudson bay respectively, and the report is, in the main, a description of one of the latter - the Winisk - throughout almost its entire length, and of the upper branches of one of the former, the Attawapiskat. Earlier Exploration in the District. As far as I have been able to learn, there are no references in the journals of the early explorers to the Winisk river. All concerned in the search for a northwest passage to the Orient, they were naturally led to give most of their attention to the passages between the Arctic islands lying at the extreme north end of the bay. The mouth of the Severn river was, however, visited by a number of them, and Henry Hudson and Thomas James explored the bay now known as James bay, then called Hudson's bays. Captain Thomas James, and Captain Luke Foxe (who styles himself in his journal, 'the northwest fox') seem to have been the only navigators who sailed along the coast between the Severn river and Cape Henrietta Maria, for the purpose of examining it. They describe a generally low shore, with shallow water, and make no allusion to having noticed the mouth of the Winisk river.

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