Ashuanipi Lake

The lake features excellent fishing for lake trout, pike, whitefish and landlocked salmon. The Lac Joseph caribou herd can be found around Ashuanipi Lake during the summer and fall. The lake is mainly surrounded by forests of black spruce, although the Kapitagas Channel at the southern end of the lake features the only jack pine forest in Labrador and is protected as part of Redfir Lake–Kapitagas Channel Ecological Reserve.

Through radiocarbon dating, evidence has been found at the lake for human habitation as far back as 1600 years ago. Along with the Moisie River, whose headwaters are nearby, the lake was part of a route used by the Innu to reach the lower north shore of the St. Lawrence River. The lake was known to the colonists of New France by the early 18th century.