Kinosoo
The Legend Of Cold Lake
Many years ago, before the white settler invaded the wilderness around Cold Lake, when only mossly foot-path marked the passage of humans and rings of blackened stones protecting cold ashes told of recent teepee camps, a young wood Cree Indian brave lived before, he set out to crossthe lake to visit his betrothed, paddling his canoe swifty and strongly. Near the mouth of what is now French Bay, a huge fish rose from the water, took the canoe into its cavernous mouth, and snapped in in two. The young Indian maiden never saw her brave warrior again, but the pieces of the canoe were found floating in the lake the following day. For many years after , no Indain dared cross the lake . The large lake trout caught in Cold lake today may be the smaller brother or the "big fish" -- as far as anyone knows, the Kinosoo is still there. |
