Jumping Caribou Lake
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Jumping Caribou Lake is located within the Municipality of Temagami, in the Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. Ojibwa natives of the area have given the lake its name.
Jumping Caribou Lake played an important role in the logging industry from the early 1900's until the late 1920's. The first cabins on the lake were located on Byers Bay off the Old Ferguson Highway (now realigned and part of Highway 11) and were part of a logging camp. In 1934, Herman Watson Osborn bought the old logging camp and transformed it into the first private camp on the lake. Osborn was instrumental in getting Warner Brothers to film Captains of the Clouds (starring James Cagney, Brenda Marshall, Dennis Morgan and Alan Hale, Sr.) on Jumping Caribou Lake.
Of the original logging cabins on Jumping Caribou Lake, only one is still in use today. At present, there are 31 private camps and 1 commercial camp on the lake. Fish in the lake include Walleye, Northern Pike, Smallmouth bass and Lake trout.
