30A located at Cedar Point, Ontario and the 3.1 hectares (7.7 acres) Chippewa Island Indian Reserve located in Twelve Mile Sound, 27.5 kilometres (17.1 mi) north of Christian Island, it forms the land base for the Beausoleil First Nation.

UNESCO's Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve covers an area of 347,000 hectares (860,000 acres) that stretches 200 kilometres (120 miles) along Georgian Bay's eastern coast from Port Severn to the French River, and is the world's largest freshwater archipelago – known as The Thirty Thousand Islands.

During their brief stay, the Jesuits constructed a small fort including a stone wall, a church, living quarters, a well and a stable.

[1] However, despite their attempts to clear the forest and plant crops, famine struck the group as winter descended, which historical evidence suggests, caused an outbreak of cannibalism.

[3] Facing increasingly hostile conditions, the Jesuits and most of the Huron refugees left the island and travelled to Quebec in the summer of 1650.

The remaining Huron, along with the surviving remnants of the Petun, an Iroquoian group living at the base of the Niagara Escarpment near present-day Collingwood, left the island in 1651.

Their ancestors were nomadic, travelling from northern Georgian Bay and the United States around Lakes Huron and Michigan.

Today, many of the residents work on the mainland, and a growing community has sprung up on an annex of property at the Cedar Point landing.

A car ferry, the Sandy Graham, travels the strait between the Point and the Island on a regular schedule.

At times of severe cold, the people build an ice road between the island and the mainland.

Lake Huron (in which Georgian Bay is located) is the final resting place to hundreds of other sunken vessels, many of them of great historic value.

"Our people have to cross day-to-day to get access to all the goods and services, as well as hospitals, medical appointments.

I, in good conscience, can't continue to sail this ferry knowing that tragedy could happen out on that water," Christian Island Chief Roly Monague said, according to the Canadian Press.

[7] The band council had put off regular maintenance of the ferry in an effort to ensure its replacement.

The ferry broke down again mid-summer, 2016, and after a lengthy repair period was brought back into operation in November 2016.

The Island's official website (on November 25, 2016) states that: "Due to a significant engine repair that is required, the M.V.

[1] As reported by Roger Klein of Barrie's CTV News, Chief Mary McCue-King and Minister Carolyn Bennett held a meeting, brokered by the Beausoleil First Nation Youth Council, in January 2017.