Eastern White Pine
Ojibwe Name:
biisaandago-zhingwaak
Scientific Name:
Pinus strobus
Significance in Ojibwe Cultures:
Used to make shingles
How to Identify the Leaves:
"It has skinny needles that are 6 to 12 centimetres long. It’s easy to recognize the eastern white pine because its needles grow in bunches of five.
The eastern white pine’s cones are 8 to 20 cm long and they hang down from the branches. Good seed crops aren’t produced until trees are 20 or 30 years old, and then only every 3 to 5 years. Its bark is dark greyish brown with broad thick ridges that are 2 to five centimetres thick."
Sources:
How to Identify Tree: https://www.ontario.ca/page/eastern-white-pine
Land Acknowledgment
We would like to acknowledge that we are located on ancestral lands, the traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabe covered by the Williams Treaties. This area, known to the Anishinaabe as “Gidaaki”, has been inhabited for thousands of years – as territories for hunting, fishing, gathering and growing food.
For thousands of years Indigenous people have been the stewards of this place. The intent and spirit of the treaties that form the legal basis of Canada bind us to share the land “for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow”.
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Location:
297 College Drive
Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0
Tel:
(705) 457-3555
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