Hudson Bay Lowlands

Many wide and slow-moving rivers flow through this area toward the saltwater of Hudson Bay: these include the Churchill, Nelson and Hayes in Manitoba, Severn, Fawn, Winisk, Asheweig, Ekwan, Attawapiskat, and Albany in Ontario, and the Harricana, Rupert and Eastmain in Quebec.

When Europeans arrived in the area, the Hudson's Bay Company set up trading posts such as Rankin Inlet, some of which remain populated today.

[citation needed] There are a few small First Nations settlements on the southern shore of Hudson Bay Lowlands at places like Moose Factory, Moosonee, Attawapiskat, and Fort Severn.

The climate of the region depends largely on the water surface of the bay, which heats rapidly in the summer, breaking the ice and bringing rains to the lowlands.

The soil is almost entirely peatland, dominated by lichen, moss, and sedges, with a mix of boreal forest, arctic, and sub-arctic plant species.

The Hudson Bay Lowlands approximately coincide with the Southern Hudson Bay taiga ecoregion of North America.
Snow geese migrate north each year to breed in the coastal marshes of the Hudson Bay Lowlands.