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Originally Posted by Acajack
You'd use the same name as the region across the border in Quebec?
Kind of like how there are two Congos in Africa? Or Macedonia (former Yugoslavia) and Macedonia (Greece)?  |
The Abitibi and Temiskaming names belong just as much to Ontario as they do to Quebec. The original inhabitants were know as the "Abitibis" (often spelled a bit differently) and they lived in the area surrounding Lake Abitibi and spreading out quite far. They spoke an Algonquin language.
Lake Abitibi is a border lake although 90% of it is in Ontario. The Abitibi River is entirely in Ontario and runs through Iroquois Fall where the Abitibi Power and Paper Company began which eventually became Abitibi-Consolidated then Abitibi-Bowater and now Resolute.
The Abitibi name is commonly used in mining in both provinces to identify the region.
And for Temiskaming (Témiscamingue), Lake Temiskaming (lac Témiscamingue) has the border running right through it. There is the City of Temiskaming Shores and the area has always been known as Temiskaming but sometimes the spelling changed.
Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border in the area have much in common. (Mining, forestry, agriculture) and were developed together. The first roads and rail to the Quebec portion to places like Rouyn were only through Ontario. There are many mining and forestry companies that operate on both sides and many smaller specialty companies that do the same.