“Meggisi” is a French/English transliteration of the Ojibwe word “mi-gi-zi” which means “eagle.”

Lake Meggisi is located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, and is uninhabited except for moose, eagle, beaver, and lake trout. On occasion, human visitors to Meggisi have taken time to enjoy the sound of wind sifting through pine, water lapping up on the Precambrian rocks making up the shoreline, the calls of local fauna, and the company of close friends in fellowship – all in awe of the beauty God places in the world.

My father started visiting Lake Meggisi in the 1980′s. When his sons were old enough to make the journey and understand the wealth of the visit, he started bringing us with him. What had once been an annual pilgrimage for my family has become a sporadic luxury. But Meggisi is always in our hearts, and on our minds. Someday we will be back there again – perhaps even forever, for in our opinions heaven is not far from it.

~ Kris Pierson