EASTMAN LAND
Eastmain (Eastman) is an area on the east shore of James Bay. The Eastmain River of today used to be the Slood (sleet) River of the Algonquins. The Eastmain name appears during descriptions in Hudson Bay books as if Eastmain was a known location as opposed to men building a trading station and naming it, usually for Englishmen.
The Christian Albans, who originally came from Scotland via Iceland and Greenland, may have intermarried with the infiltrating, Christian Norse hunters to produce the "Indian" physique of Northeast America. Algonquin (Algån kin) and Abanaki.(Aban Land) are verbal clues indicating Alban roots.
.Jesuit Albanel also provides tantalizing, but not conclusive, support for this conjecture. In the seventeenth century he describes the unexpected yearning of the people in the southwest James Bay Region to be baptized. (JRAD, Vol. LVI, CXXVIII)
