Aunona

The river known to the Wendat as Aunona runs through the hills to the St Lawrence at Baie Saint-Paul. In 1608 Samuel de Champlain called it the Rivière du Gouffre, describing the powerful tide and deep, troubled water at its mouth. A seigneury named for the river was granted to Pierre Dupré in 1682. A decade later, men spent a winter at the bay preparing masts for shipment to France, drawing on the great timber of the surrounding country.