Chigoubiche

Chigoubiche is a lake and river in the forested country northwest of Lac Saint-Jean. The lake's Innu name refers to a place where mergansers nest, recalling the birds found in these waters. In 1732 the surveyor Joseph-Laurent Normandin recorded the name during his journey through the region. Local Indigenous travellers regarded the lake and river as the shortest route to Lake Ashuapmushuan, a few kilometres to the west, and its fur-trading country.