Pic River is not a signatory to the Robinson Superior treaty; however, they did petition, starting in 1879, for a reserve and the request was subsequently granted.

It was a strategic location in the region's water transportation network because it offered access to northern lands and a canoe route to James Bay.

The halfway point for canoers travelling the north shore of Lake Superior, "the Pic" first appeared on European maps in the mid-seventeenth century.

The reserve is 316.6 ha within its exterior boundaries, and serves as the land-base for the Ojibways of the Pic River First Nation.

The Pic River 50 reserve is home to many wild Northern Ontario species such as the beaver, moose, woodland caribou, wolf, black bear, white tailed and red tailed hawk, bald eagle, northern flicker, and many arctic alpine plants.