Kitigan Zibi

At Kitigan Zibi, the Désert River meets the Gatineau in the forested country of the Algonquin. The Désert valley formed part of their winter hunting grounds. In the first half of the nineteenth century Algonquin families from the mission at Lac des Deux Montagnes came to the area under Chief Pakinawatik; the Hudson's Bay Company followed them and established a trading post at the river mouth in 1832.