Wabigoon Lake

Wabigoon Lake is a lake located in the Kenora [District, Ontario|Kenora District] in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The community of Dryden is located on the north shore of the lake, and the primary inflow and outflow is the Wabigoon River. A dam built to provide power for the early pulp and paper company raised the original level of the lake by several feet and its current average depth is, destroying a significant amount of the local timber and wild rice in the process.
The name "Wabigoon" comes from the Ojibwe waabigon, "marigold", or waabi-miigwan, "white feather".