Touring county highway E south from Bruce fifteen miles will also lead the traveler to Flambeau. A third route can be accomplished by driving east on highway D from Island Lake, which is located on highway 40. The earliest recorded date that I could find on Flambeau coincides with the arrival of a few Frenchmen and several French Canadians who worked the lumber camps. Flambeau is a post village on the Chippewa River, fourteen miles south of Bruce, the nearest shipping point. It was officially settled in 1868, and has a post office, church and a district school, with about 100 residents.
Mail is received and distributed twice a week.
The total population of the township for 1890 was 289. Before the coming of the white man, it was the crossroads of Indian trails and the site of a year round village. Frenchmen such as Adolphe LaRonge were settled in Flambeau some ten years before the Shaw Company arrived. 29 Dec. 1864. About one third of the first four pages consist of Indian baptisms.