Rankin Location 15D is one of four reserves of the Batchewana First Nation in Algoma District in northeastern Ontario, Canada.

Marie, and on the east by Garden River First Nations reserve of another Ojibwe people.

At 3,733 acres, Rankin is the largest of four reserves for the Batchewana band First Nation, whose traditional territory ran north from Sault Ste.

[2] The band signed the Pennefather Treaty in 1859 relinquishing all title to Reserve 15 (except for Whitefish Island, which was expropriated by the Crown in 1902).

This was affirmed in the Gargantua Harbour Trial, with a ruling in 2015 in favor of the Batchawana Band First Nation being allowed to continue commercial fishing and have access to a traditional village through Lake Superior Provincial Park.