Links & other sources of information

Links to other sites about James Bay

Municipality of James Bay

• Municipality of James Bay website - tourist info (English);  James Bay Road information

Towns

• Chisasibi Mandow Agency;  James Bay Road info
• Town of Radisson website; See also here
• Robert A. Boyd Park (Radisson) (French only)
• Town of Matagami official website
• Cree Communities of Northern Quebec
• Nemaska First Nation
• Cree Nation of Wemindji
• Cree Outfitting & Tourism Association:
  • Waskaganish
  • Nemaska
  • Eastmain
  • Wemindji
  • Chisasibi

TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS

• Natural Resources Canada - to find a map dealer, and also info about the topo maps
• in Ontario:
  • Federal Maps Inc.
  • World of Maps
• in Quebec:
  • Aux Quatre Points Cardinaux

ROADS & ROAD MAP

ROAD MAP OF THE JAMES BAY REGION The only known road map of the region is made by Cartotek Geo, and is available on their website www.cartotekgeo.com/Html/R017F.html The map's name is: R017 Nord-du-Québec. Price $3.95. Plus an unknown amount for shipping. Unfortunately, the website is only in French. So, you're sort of on your own for navigating through the online store registration and checkout process unless you know at least some French. 1-800-563-0031.

• Tourism Quebec - the official Quebec Tourism site (English).  This area is known as the "Northern Quebec" tourist area.
• Official Quebec Road map online
• Quebec Autorotes
• Another map of the region (so far only in French) - James Bay Region Development Corporation

Trips to this region

• Gianluca's photo gallery - Italian bicyclist in Summer of 2008
• Purple Lizard Maps - a trip in February 2007
• Northern Canadian Odyssey - Josh Metzger traveled here in July 2007
• SeriesTrek website - James Bay Road, Route-du-Nord, and Trans-Taiga Road in 2007 - by Jim
• James Bai in Baie James - a trip in August 2006 on motorbike by a guy whose name is James Bai! :)
• James Bay ride thread from GTA Sportriders forum/website (motorcycles) - chatty but does have some useful information about planning such a trip - 2005.
  • Here are photos from the eventual trip
• Bill and Kevin's Big Dam Tour - Two guys took their motorcycles up the James Bay Road in 1999
• Across Canada on a Bicycle As far as possible through the North - One page of a trip across Canada, where the cyclist went along the James Bay Road and the North Road.
• Photos From Northern Quebec - some photos from a trip up the James Bay Road in December 1999.
• James Bay Deuce - a trip up to James Bay in February 2001, with photos.
• Arctic Mini - about the Feb 2005 Austin Mini rally trip up the James Bay Road
  • Hudson Bay or Bust - Mid-winter MINI Arctic Run, Feb 2005
  • David and Jay's Excellent Adventure - or, 62 hours in MINI, and loving it! - Hudson Valley to Hudson Bay Road Trip - 2002. Also Hudson Bay or Bust II (Feb 2005)
  • Hudson Bay or Bust II  - Motoringfile.com
  • Hudson Bay or Bust 2005 - by "Pete"
  • Hudson Bay or Bust 2005 - by "Uptick (Pete) - lots of photos of the James Bay Road in winter, plus a couple of movies.
  • Mini Arctic Run and Debrief - Explorer's Web
  • Coruscation - a blog about this trip
• One's Experience of the James Bay Region in Northern Quebec - Charles Dowdell---Aug 8, 2003; Links
• The James Bay Road - a trip on motorcycle by John Feiereisen, Summer 2000
• Travelling the James Bay Road - "Join a remote-road explorer as he drives the lonely James Bay and Trans-Taiga Roads" - by Walter Muma (Canadian Geographic website)
• Webshots - Images of James Bay - Sep 2003
• James Bay Trip - Richard McDonald, by motorcycle, July 2001
• James Gang goes to James Bay - 2004
• Adventure Rider forum - travelogue of a trip up the North Road & James Bay Roads by motorcycle - by Bueller - July 2004
• "James Bay or Bust - yet another story of motorcycle stupidity and disco" - Peter Hogboy rides a motorcycle up to Radisson in late September - photo album of this trip
• Peter Loewen's trip to James Bay on a dirt bike - on his Blog: "A Shrewdness of Apes"
• Summer 2005 Ride - Denis

Photo: Liam Gumley, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison