Overlooking Mic Mac Lake, Minnesota ...

A few years ago we cabined on Mic Mac Lake on the Minnesota shore of Lake Superior. The name caught my interest immediately; the Mi’kmaq (earlier spelled Micmac) are a Native American tribe indigenous to the maritime provinces of Canada, where my mom grew up. So I asked about the name. Here’s the scoop: "A logging camp was set up on the shores of a lake the loggers called Mic Mac, after the major Indian tribe from their native New Brunswick, Canada. They took the Mic Mac’s Algonquin names for New Brunswick landmarks and gave them to the lakes in Minnesota."