Download or read book Nipissing written by Françoise Noël and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lake Nipissing area is best known as a voyageur route between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay visited by explorers, missionaries, and fur traders. All of these travellers, however, were on a journey elsewhere. This book focuses on the less well-known story of the area's transformation into a tourist destination between 1875 and 1955.