Atikokan

Atikokan is a township in the Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The populace was 2,753 as of the 2016 enumeration. The town is one of the principle section focuses into Quetico Provincial Park and advances itself as the "Paddling Capital of Canada". Atikokan was initially settled as a rail stop for the Canadian Northern Railway. The town of Atikokan is an enclave inside the Unorganized Rainy River District. It is in the Central Time Zone however watches Eastern Standard Time for a large portion of the year. The first pilgrims to the Atikokan region were the "Oschekamega Wenenewak" Ojibwa ,Chippewa. They lived independent from anyone else until the entry of Jacques de Noyon in 1688. His adventure was basic for the extension and investigation of the Atikokan territory.

Prior to the second World War, mineral investigation in the territory decided the nearness of an extensive, high review, press metal store at the base of Steep Rock Lake. After the war an extensive water preoccupation venture on the Seine River framework was embraced to empower the depleting and digging of Steep Rock lake with the end goal to create open-pit mining tasks. Two vast mines started tasks in the late 1950s and proceeded for over 30 years. At the point when the mines shut in the mid 1980s the town of Atikokan endured monetarily yet kept on making due on characteristic asset based ventures and tourism.