The
Kaministiquia River is a
river which empties into western
Lake Superior at the city of
Thunder Bay,
Ontario.
Kaministiquia (
Gaa-ministigweyaa) is an
Ojibwe word meaning "(river) with islands" due to two large islands (McKellar and Mission) at the mouth of the river. The
delta has three branches or outlets, reflected on early North American maps in
French as "les trois rivières" (the three rivers): the southernmost is known as the
Mission River, the central branch as the
McKellar River, and the northernmost branch as the Kaministiquia. Residents of the region commonly refer to the river as the
Kam River.