The same word with a newer pronunciation is used for the town Manitowaning (19th-century Odawa "Manidoowaaning"), which is located on Manitoulin Island near the underwater cave where legend has it that the spirit dwells.

The organization rehabilitates streams, rivers and creeks on Manitoulin Island to improve water quality and the fisheries resource.

The Manitoulin Streams Improvement Association has conducted enhancement strategies for the Manitou River and Blue Jay Creek.

Manitoulin Island experiences a humid continental climate (Dfb) with moderation from Lake Huron.

During the summer, the population (12,600 permanent residents) on the island grows by more than a quarter due to tourists coming for boating and other activities in scenic surroundings.

From late May to early October, a daily passenger-vehicle ferry, the MS Chi-Cheemaun (Ojibwe for "Big Canoe"), travels between Tobermory on the tip of the Bruce Peninsula and South Baymouth.

During excavation, he found artefacts of the Paleo-Indian and Archaic periods, dating at least to 10,000 BC and possibly to 30,000 years ago.

[10] Popular interest in the finds was so high that it contributed to Ontario's passing legislation in 1953 to protect its archaeological sites.

The North Channel was part of the route used by the French colonial voyageurs and coureurs des bois to reach Lake Superior.

The first known European to settle on the island was Father Joseph Poncet, a French Jesuit, who set up a mission near Wiikwemkoong in 1648.

In addition, the Five Nations of the Iroquois began raiding the island and area to try to control the fur trade with the French.

According to Anishinaabe oral tradition, to purify the island from disease, the people burned their settlements as they left.

Native people (Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi) began to return to the island following the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States.

As the Wikwemikong chief did not accept this treaty, his people's reserve was held back from being offered for development.