Nipissing
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Nipissings,
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Nippissing
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Lake Nipissing, a lake in southeastern Canada, in Ontario, north of Georgian Bay. 330 sq. mi. (855 sq. km).
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a member of one of the First Nations of Ontario, a division of the Ojibwe people, historically living along the northern shore of Lake Nipissing.
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Etymology
Origin of Nipissing
First recorded in 1740–50; from French Nipissingue, from Ojibwe Nipissink, the name of Lake Nipissing
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Indigenous people are used to be invisible, keeping our heads down Bear Witness “My reserve, Nipissing, was out of walking distance to the nearest town,” Campeau said.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2015
Some American Red Cross divisions use the stuffed red blood cell in school presentations, and the Education Centre Library serving Ontario's Canadore College and Nipissing University has dozens of Giant Microbes in its lending inventory.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2010
The rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Michael Friedsam, president of Altman's department store; Ellis P. Earle, president of Nipissing Mines, great Canadian producers of silver, cobalt, nickel, arsenic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Between 1868 and 1873 two experimental narrow-gauge lines were built running north from Toronto—the Toronto and Nipissing, and the Toronto, Grey and Bruce.
From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar Douglas Skelton
The burden of the reply was, rapids, rocks, cataracts, and the wickedness of the Nipissings.
From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
The Algonquins and Nipissings became guests of the Hurons for the winter, encamping within their principal walled town, or perhaps in some neighboring village not far removed.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis
He had already brought the powerful Algonquins and Nipissings into his scheme, and planted them at Two Mountains as a bulwark to protect the city of Ville Marie.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
They made attempts to christianize the Micmacs of Acadia, the Abnaki of the upper St John, the Algonquin tribes of the lower St Lawrence, and the Nipissings of the upper Ottawa.
From The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness by Thomas Guthrie Marquis
His audience looked grave, for they were but cold and jealous friends of the Nipissings.
From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
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