The Asubpeeschoseewagong people say they have always lived along the Wabigoon River, which flows from Raleigh Lake past Dryden, Ontario on Wabigoon Lake, to join the English River. It is located northeast of Lake of the Woods.

The Asubpeeschoseewagong people say they have always lived along the Wabigoon River, which flows from Raleigh Lake past Dryden, Ontario on Wabigoon Lake, to join the English River. It is located northeast of Lake of the Woods.

Historians believe that the ancestors of the Northern Ojibway first encountered Europeans near what is now Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and thus were given the name Saulteaux. Their territory was on the northern shore of the Great Lakes, from the Michipicoten Bay of Lake Superior to the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. Participation in the North American fur trade was initially through trading furs trapped by other tribes. Still, soon, the Saulteaux acquired trapping skills and emigrated to their present location as they sought productive trapping grounds.