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The Algoma Sailing Club
Pennant (club flag) contains the club insignia which is the Migaze (Migizi).
Its origin is in the First Nation Rock Paintings at Agawa. The literal
translation of the word is eagle; symbolically it indicates courage.
Agawa Bay is home of Canada's
famous pictograph sites called Mazinaubikiniguning, which means
"the adorned rock on Agawa Lake." The Oijway and Chippewa
Nations created the paintings which date back to the 17th and 18th centuries,
but they have only been publicly promoted since 1950.
Awaga Bay is located on the
eastern shore of Lake Superior, within the Lake Superior Provincial Park
just north of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. Before viewing the paintings, one
must safely take in consideration the wind and shore wave action that Lake
Superior creates as the paintings are located along the bottom of a cliff
wall that hugs the shoreline. |
