Wawa is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within the Algoma District. Formerly known as the township of Michipicoten, the township was officially renamed for its largest and best-known community in 2009. The township also includes the smaller communities of Michipicoten and Michipicoten River, which are small port settlements on the shore of Lake Superior.
Wawa’s history is rich in mining, forestry and the fur trade. Although mining attempts began as early as the late 1660s, it wasn’t until 1896 that gold was discovered on nearby Wawa Lake which led to a rush to the area. The population grew from a handful of people to approximately a thousand people.
In 1898 the town site at the Mission was registered as “Michipicoten City”. In 1899 Wawa was surveyed and plotted into a town and registered as Wawa City. In the latter half of the 1950s, the town’s name was changed to Jamestown, in honour of Sir James Hamet Dunn, but it was later changed back to Wawa by the request of the community’s residents.

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