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LAKE PENAGE Lake Penage has some fascinating names on its map. Sentinel Island, Green Point, Pickerel Channel, Rangers Bay, Burnt Narrows, Stoney Bay, Indian Head Point, Newton Bay, Cat Lake Portage are all names that suggest history in the making. But of all the names that of Penage itself is most descriptive. Corruption of theâ€"spelling of Penage has definitely diminished its aptitude. The original spelling, Panache, has its derivation from an Indian word the meaning of which is "in the shape of a moose‘s horns," and this correctly describes the shape of ‘ our beautiful Lake. Having nine hundred miles of shoreline but measuring from the West End to the East End, the lake can boast of no greater breadth than sewen miles. Taking into account the long verdured shoreâ€"lines of its bays, and the deep and rocky bluffs of its myriad islands, thus came to our total of shoreline mileage. Burnt Narrows suggest the destructive angry bite of forest fires which left charred ugly stumps to remind us to douse our campfires. Indian Head Point, thrusts its finger out into the blue depths resembling a flint arrowhead. The reefs and shoals lying in wart under a few inches of water for unwary boats, gave Stoney Bay its name. The Fire Rangers built their headquarters on a tiny island at the entrance of a bay and so, Rangers Bay. Pickerel Channel is a favorite spot for catching dwellers of the deep carrying that appelation. Sentinel Island breaks against the horizon of lake and sky, unmoved, unchanged and undefeated for its rocky bulk has not bowed down to human habitation. And so the names pass in review recalling the thoughtfulness of our forbearers who lived close to nature and gloried in giving names to things with which their daily living brought them in constant contact. Panache, we shall use this unadulterated nomenclature, is one of a chain of lakes and rivers, finally spilling into Georgian Bay. Years ago, when Red Men held undisputed sway, birch bark canoes plied their way from village to village, using this chain of lakes as their highway. Later on, when the white man came, coureur de bois, in their everlasting search for wealth in furs trapped and hunted here. They, too, found the chain of waterâ€" ‘ ways helpful in coursing their freighter canoes to the Great Lakes trading posts. When furâ€"trading became organized and the Hudson‘s Bay Company sent its factors out to establish trading posts in the great north, one chose to settle on Mud Creek, the river flowing into Panache at its east end. No ruins remain to remind us of this post but those who lived here half a century ago remember the post and its location. This waterway was used by settlers around Sudbury as a main thoroughfare. It is spoken of by the late Mrs. Howey wife of Dr. Howey in a book which she wrote. Quote, "Then to the canoes again, and on to Lake Panache, usually called Penage, but it was named Panatg:he, which is French for feather