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'''Lake Ojibway''' was a [[prehistoric]] lake in what is now northern [[Ontario]] and [[Quebec]] in [[Canada]]. Ojibway was the last of the great [[proglacial lake]]s of the last [[ice age]]. Comparable in size to [[Lake Agassiz]] (to which it
Lake Ojibway was relatively short-lived. The lake drained in what must have been a catastrophic and dramatic manner around 8,200 years BP. One hypothesis is that a weakening [[ice dam]] separating it from [[Hudson Bay]] broke, as the lake was roughly {{convert|250|m|abbr=on}} above [[sea level]]. A comparable mechanism produced the [[Missoula floods]] that created the [[Channeled scablands]] of the [[Columbia River]] basin.<ref name=AGU/>
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