Wikipedia
Abitibi may refer to:
- Abitibi Canyon, Ontario, community adjacent to the Abitibi Canyon Generating Station
- Abitibi Canyon Generating Station, Canadian hydroelectric power plant
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Canada), a region of Quebec
- AbitibiBowater, a pulp and paper manufacturing company
- Abitibi—Témiscamingue (Canada), a federal electoral district
- Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou (Canada), a former federal electoral district
- Abitibi, a former Quebec provincial electoral district
- Abitibi County, Quebec (Canada), an historical county
- Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Quebec (Canada)
- Abitibi River (Canada)
- Lake Abitibi (Canada)
- The Abitibi (train), a Via Rail passenger train in Quebec
- Abitibi Eskimos, a junior A hockey club based in Iroquois Falls, Ontario, playing in the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League
- Abitibi gold belt, a gold mining region spanning the border of Ontario and Quebec
Abitibi was a former provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada which elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. It was located in the general area of the modern-day Abitibi-Témiscamingue region in Western Quebec.
It was created for the 1923 election from parts of the Témiscamingue electoral district. Its last election was in 1939. It disappeared in the 1944 election and was split into Abitibi-Ouest and Abitibi-Est.
Usage examples of "abitibi".
They have been steadily migrating eastward along the Churchill River, then by way of Cross Lake, Fort Hope, to Abitibi, thence north-easterly clean across the country to Labrador, where few were to be found twenty-five years ago.
The unhappy travellers made their way down to Moose Factory in borrowed HBC lighters, then had to travel five hundred miles tip the Moose and Abitibi rivers before they reached civilization.
From the beginning, in Abitibi, just like the preceding tour, we all knew that we had a good product.
De Troyes left four more men in charge of the new post and paddled north on Lake Abitibi and down the Abitibi River into the Moose River.
On June 19, they reached the Junction of the Abitibi and the Moose rivers.