Mammamattawa is a dispersed rural community and unincorporated place in the Unorganized North Part of Cochrane District in northeastern Ontario, Canada.[1][3][4][5] It is located at the mouth of the Kabinakagami River at the Kenogami River, just 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) downstream of the mouth of the Nagagami River at the Kenogami, in the James Bay drainage basin.[3][6]

Mammamattawa
Dispersed rural community
Indians at English River Post, 1905
Mammamattawa Location of Mammamattawa in Ontario
Coordinates: 50°24′40″N 84°21′59″W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Region	Northeastern Ontario
District	Cochrane
Part	Cochrane, Unorganized, North
Elevation [2]	88 m (289 ft)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern Time Zone)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (Eastern Time Zone)
Postal code FSA	P0L
Area codes	705, 249

The Constance Lake First Nation operates a camp at Mammamattawa.[7]

History

The first inland post of the Hudson's Bay Company, named Henley House, was established at the confluence of the Kenogami River and Albany River in 1743.[8][9] A new post was established in 1884 at the confluence of the Kenogami River and the Kabinakagami River.[10] It was known as the English River Post, as the Kenogami was also known as the English River.[11] The English River First Nation, the primary forerunner to today's Constance Lake First Nation, had a reserve set aside for their use just north of the post in 1912, which remains part of the Constance Lake First Nations lands as English River 66 Indian Reserve.[3][6][11][12] The Hudson's Bay Company English River Post was abandoned in 1941, and the place later took on its present First Nations name.

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