The name Pukaskwa means many things like fish cleaner, fish eater, or evil sources at the Ojibway and Cree Cultural Centre in Timminsin indicate that Roman orthography for Pukaskwa should be Pukasku. The word Pukasku describes what people do when they cook the marrow inside the bones of animals. Remnants of carcass are thrown into an open fire and left until any remaining meat has all burned away leaving the marrow cooked. We may never know the true origin of the name, but today it has become synonymous with the wild shores of Lake Superior known as Pukaskwa National Park.

 

There are many scary stories like this one, a first nation man got in a fight with his wife, so he knocked her out, burned her till she was nothing, but bones. Then when he returned to his tribe he got a nickname Opakasu which means cooker of marrow.

 Hikers that walk by all day say that they can hear the woman calling for help. 

 

Here is another story that will give you a scare. There is another island that is near by, and there is a light house on it and the light house keeper watched in horror as the Edmund Fitzgerald boat sank in Lake Superior. It went down in a November storm the wreck took the lives of twenty four crew members. Some people say they still see the crew members wondering the beach looking out for sailors in need.

 

The park was found in 1978 but only open to the public in 1983. Pukaskwa is a site focused on local aboriginal history. Pukaskwa 1,878 square kilometres big. Pukaskwa is bracketed on the west by the coastline of Lake Superior.

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Also these are the maps we made of the park.

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This is a silent movie we made to show the story about the Edmund FitzGerald. Enjoy.

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