Book - Nanna Bijou - An Ojibway Legend of the Sleeping Giant

By Jocelyne Villeneuve

Nowadays, in a panoramic view never to be forgotten, one can see the gigantic figure of Nanna Bijou, a great land formation outlined in the bay of Lake Superior. An enormous giant asleep opposite the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. He is named The Sleeping Giant.  Situated at the southwestern tip of the vast Sibley peninsula, its rocky peaks, the highest of which boasts fourteen hundred feet elevation above sea level, ingerited the names of his head, chest and Adam's apple. The abrupt sides of the long promontory, the Nanna Steps, are likewise named in his honour.