Coacoachou

Coacoachou is a short river flowing from a chain of lakes into a bay on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Its Innu name refers to the wolverine, a resourceful animal of the northern forest. The coast and inland waters form part of Innu country, where families travelled between hunting territories and summer gathering places. In the early 1830s the surveyor Henry Bayfield charted the bay and its scattered islets for navigation.