Harricana

The Harricana flows north from the lakes and forests of Abitibi to Hannah Bay on James Bay. Its broad waters and gentle surrounding relief made it a well-used route for the Anishinaabe, linking the interior with the northern coast. In the seventeenth century the Algonquin people of Abitibi and Témiscamingue took part in the fur trade, travelling towards French markets on the St. Lawrence. The Harricana basin also lay within the lands claimed under the Hudson's Bay Company's charter of 1670.