Capotigamau

Capotigamau lies in the Manicouagan country of Quebec's North Shore, where the Manicouagan River drains a wide interior of lakes and forest toward the Gulf of St Lawrence. Innu families had used these woods for generations, hunting caribou and moose and fishing the river's rapids and falls. Their routes followed portages around the falls and paddles along the lakes. French traders reached the North Shore in the seventeenth century, drawing Innu hunters down to the trading posts at Tadoussac, where they exchanged furs for European goods.