Kitchissippi

In 1613 Samuel de Champlain, paddling up the Kichi Sibi, reached the Chaudière Falls, whose Algonquin name he recorded as meaning "kettle". He watched the Algonquin carry their canoes to the foot of the falls and lay pinches of tobacco on a wooden plate, an offering their chief said had long protected them from their enemies. Upstream, on Allumette Island, a one-eyed Algonquin chief decided which strangers might travel the river and charged them tolls, until the Haudenosaunee wars drove his people from their homeland by 1650. In 1826, a short way below the same falls, the British engineer John By laid out the town of Bytown as the base for building the Rideau Canal.

The later city of Ottawa lies here.