Webequie, Ontario

ROCKS & MINERALS: flint, flint nodule with smoky quartz crystals, fossils in flint, gneiss, kimberlite, sand & gravel, glacial trill deposits
 

 

  
From the air, you can see that this area is covered in lakes and small areas of land. This is a view of the area around Webequie taken on the flight in. Notice how the lakes are elongated in one direction.

A great variety of rocks & pebbles can be found at the beach. The island on which Webequie is built appears to have a lot of sand, gravel and rounded glacial till.

This flint nodule has an imprint of a shell fossil in it.
Flint is very common. This sample seems to be banded, similar to banded chert found in Dundas Ontario.

A rock was found at the beach that appears to be kimberlite. It looks almost identical to a sample of a drill core slice from a Norhtern Ontario diamond location.
Kimberlite found on the beach at Webequie

A flint nodule found on the beach by a resident showed to be a flint nodule geode with smoky quartz crystals when it was broken open.
This is a piece of the flint/smoky quartz geode that broke out of the hollow section.

 The beaches are lined with rocks.

Drill core piece from Esker Camp

 

Additional Information about Webequie

       

The Community of Webequie


The Northern - Store & Motel

Local School K to gr.10

The Language

Murals in school painted by AJ 2006?
Simon Jacob Memorial Education Centre - Information Source: http://education.matawa.on.ca/webequie-school  Sept.1/10
Webequie First Nation
PO Box 265 Webequie, ON P0T 3A0
Tel: (807) 353-6491 Fax: (807) 353-1306   Web: www.webequie.net

Webequie First Nation is located in remote Northern Ontario on the northern peninsula of Eastwood Island on the Winisk Lake, 540 kms kilometers northeast of the city of Thunder Bay. There is no year-round road access either in or out of the community.

The Simon Jacob Memorial Education Centre is operated by the Webequie First Nation Education Authority and has been under local control for over 14 years. The newer facility accommodates students from Kindergarten to Grade 10. The school is designed to promote a sense of pride of heritage to the students as it operates on a culturally sensitive schedule which allows the students to participate in the spring and fall hunts.

The school has taken a proactive approach to implementing First Nation content into its curriculum. Elders and their teachings are integrated into everyday lesson planning as the school places high importance on the traditional ways of life. The Webequie Education Authority feels that integrating First Nation traditional language and culture content has resulted in the school’s high success rate of graduates.

Unfortunately, the students’ parents have little to no involvement with their education, or the school itself. Impacts from this include absenteeism and high drop out rates. The lack of resources and programming has also played a large role with the students falling short of the Ontario curriculum standards.

 

Images from 1 week trip to Webequie with Mining Matters in August 2010. For a brief video on the summer camp, go to http://www.mikawaa.com/mikawaa-tv/viewvideo/80/partnering/mining-matters

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