Kikonteku

Kikonteku, the “river of the fields” in Abenaki, flows north from Lake Mégantic to the St. Lawrence. Its valley widens into floodplains before the river drops over the falls near its mouth. The Wendat also used the river as a route to hunting and fishing grounds south of the St. Lawrence. Near the falls, Abenaki families established a mission in the late seventeenth century; their name for the river recalls the fields along its course.